Author: Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780243072392
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Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
Excerpt from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 71: June to November, 1885 There was once a firm. It was in its way quite an ideal firm. Consisting as it did of a Millionaire blissfully indiffer ent to the manner in which his millions were being Spent, a Man Of Leisure with nothing to do but to travel, for the best interests Of the concern, between New York and Carneiro, and an Enthusiast who desired nothing but the privilege Of doing all the work, I can not see that it lacked any element desirable in firms. For some time the Enthusiast was indulged in his passion for living and laboring at the ranch, for the Millionaire had a yacht, and the Man of Leisure had a family. The prairie was not supposed to be adapted to the yacht, and seemed equally unattract ive to people who required schools, libra ries, and the Opera. But summer came, when school was not, and society palled. Some Of them were too young to be carried to Europe, and others were too Old to start fer California. Mount Desert was too crowded, and Montclair too lone ly. They went to the Adirondacks last year, and were going to the Great Lakes next year. They know all about New port and Nonquitt, and not enough about Tadousac. Where were they to go? 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.