Excerpt from The Massarenes: A Novel Mouse, said her husband to Lady Kenilworth, one morning at Homburg, do you see that large pale woman over there, with a face like a crumpled whitey-brown paper bag? Lady Kenilworth looked. Yes, she said, impatiently. Yes. Well? - what? - why? Well, she rolls - she absolutely rolls - wallows - biggest pile ever made out West. His wife looked again with a little more attention at the large figure of a lady, superbly clothed, who sat alone under a tree, and had that desolate air of t being in t which betrays the unelect. Nobody discovered her? Nobody taken her up? she asked, still looking through her eye-glass. Well, old Khris a little; but Khris can't get anybody on w. He does 'em more harm than good. He's dead broke. His wife smiled. They must be new, indeed, if they don't kw that. Would they be rich eugh to buy Vale Royal of Gerald? Lord, yes; rich eugh to buy a hundred Gerrys and Vales Royal. I kw it for a fact from men in the City: they are astonishing-biggest income in the United States, after Vanderbilt and Pullman. American, then? No; made their 'stiff' there, and come home to spend it. Name? 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 techlogy 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.