Graham Aspen, Painter a Novel, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

Book excerpt: Excerpt from Graham Aspen, Painter a Novel, Vol. 1 of 2 IT was a very unfortunate circumstance, very 3 This speech, sufficiently commonplace and apparently destitute of Obscure intention, was made almost simultaneously by two persons in the innermost seclusion of their respective cham bers, and the privacy with which the individual souls were thus unburdened proved that the sentiment expressed was not quite the one which would have been proclaimed from the house-top by either speaker, more especially as it was accompanied, in each case, by a pursing of the brow and a biting of the nether lip, significant of vexation. 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.