Book Description

Excerpt from An Inheritance a Novel Mrs. Polliver Jones entertained that night. From her brown-stone front an awning stretched to the curb. The long-suffering pedestrians, whose rights were thus infringed, passing through the little transverse tunnels kindly left for their accommodation, imprinted tracks of their plebeian feet on the carpet which supplemented the awning in its endeavor to protect the guests of No. - Fifth Avenue from the inclemency of a February snow-storm. From opposite the house a glaring electric light cast now elongating, now contracting shadows of the hurrying vehicles, and made surrounding objects mysterious and ghostly with its flickering intensity. The usual roar of the street was deadened by the white covering to the stones, and on everything within sight descended the silent snow, cold as human charity, pure and impartial as the divine. Carriage after carriage rolled up to the door, and, depositing its aggregate of silks and diamonds, broadcloth and humanity, each in turn silently hurried away and was lost in the uncertain distance. It was the night of nights for Mrs. Polliver Jones. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.