Lanterna Rally

Author: Walter Besant

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-12-21

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780484290814

Excerpt from The Ten Years Tenant: And Other Stories After the performance some of the men found themselves presently in the smoking-room. Here, instead of gloomily staring at each other, we fell to talking over the evening's entertainment. Hither came my friend with the red face and thick lips. He took a chair next to mine, and, calling for a brandy-and-soda, began to talk. His utterance was slow and measured. It is always, he said, when his mixture was set before him, advisable to fall in with the habits of the current gene ration. A hundred years ago - in 1760, for instance - gentle men did not drink brandy-and-soda, nor did they smoke tobacco. Common people, country clergy, light porters, and the like took their pipes. But not gentlemen. These propositions, thus baldly stated, produced on my mind much the same effect as two or three copy-book texts. 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.