The Divine Event (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Divine Event The grounds about the mansion were extensive and orderly. Many asphalt drives and walks wound through them from the porticoed front entrance and the porte-cochere on the side of the great stone structure to the main thoroughfare to New York, which on clear days might be seen in the distance and in the rear of the building down a graceful slope to the Hudson. Hillery Gramling, the bachelor owner of the place, reclined in an easy-chair in the library, a well-lighted room on the ground floor adjoining a stately suite of drawing-rooms. On a table, within his reach, lay a disorderly pile of books, papers, and magazines, boxes of cigars and cigarettes. He was thirty-five years of age, above medium height, well built, and had a sensitive face and shadowy dark eyes. There was a gentle rap on the closed door. "Come in, " Gramling called out, wearily, and a manservant entered. 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.