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Excerpt from The Rival Beauties, Vol. 3 of 3: A Novel The reader must now follow us to a vast and magnificent apartment of such extent that the dark walls - whereon a series of ancient family portraits pannelled into the woodwork, and encircled by a faded gold moulding, too much timeworn to reflect the light - were left in deep shadow; although, in the centre of the marble floor, a somewhat capacious table bore a cluster of wax tapers, which shed their brilliancy over a number of crystal goblets, tall-necked bottles, and a small tray containing dishes of olives, prepared caviare, salted sardines, and other provocatives of thirst. 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.