A Cosmopolitan Comedy (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A Cosmopolitan Comedy As this was the princess's reception morn ing, Varinka, her Russian maid, threw the curtains wide and let the delicious April sunshine play upon the carpet. She then wheeled the long chair into the proper angle, settled the tufted silk cushions, and set with in reach a little table just large enough to hold a book, a little jewelled box, and a cut glass bottle Of rare perfume. Here installed, the princess further directed Varinka in the arrangement Of the room for visitors, until she was interrupted by a step outside the door and a knock on its panels. Varinka ¿ew to open it, and there entered Mr. Hugh Carnegie, her mistress's cousin and compa triot. 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.