This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...It was just magnificent. I never realized how the time flew until I looked at the clock.' "And then the dear soul forgot all about her grievance and talked the most delightful dressmaker's shop all the way home. She even neglected to remark that she hoped the time would come when she could have a carriage to go out to ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...It was just magnificent. I never realized how the time flew until I looked at the clock.' "And then the dear soul forgot all about her grievance and talked the most delightful dressmaker's shop all the way home. She even neglected to remark that she hoped the time would come when she could have a carriage to go out to full dress affairs in. We all talk shop, even our own critics--and they, worst of all. I listened to the Parsoness in conversation with one of them. "The Parsoness.--' Good evening, Mr. Never-Talk-Shop. I am glad to see you here. It has been some months since we met.' "Mr. Never-Talk-Shop.--' Yes. You see I have so little time to myself. I rush down to the office every morning at 8 o'clock. I snatch just time to go up to the Pacific Union for lunch and then never get home until 7. It is awful to work so hard; but then I tell Mrs. N. T. S. that some day I will drop the office and take a little trip to Paris. You know, I commenced in life before I was five, blowing the bellows in my father's blacksmith shop, ' etc. "When Mrs. P. said good night to him. he remarked to me, ' Mrs. P. and I had such a good chat while you and Mrs. N. T. S. were over there talking shop. Parsons, you know, are great for talking shop.' And he then laughed until his plate became loose. "Caesar's Commentaries are an example of shop talked to some purpose. I am sorry that Alexander, Hannibal, and Shakspere, and the Witch of Endor, did not talk more shop. The world would have been wiser, and many of the dark corners in history would have been lighted up." The Reviewer.--" Our creditors have an embarrassing manner of talking shop." The Artist.--" Vive le Magasin. Call in the Subscription Manager." The Subscription Manager.--&qu...
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Very Good+ No Dustjacket. Book Boston: Lothrop Publishing Company, 1900. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good+/No Dust jacket. First Edition decorated American trade binding. (signed binding-monogram TBH-Theodore B. Hapgood). Clean light green cloth boards with gold lettering and decoration, gold line rule border on cover, gold lettering and small decoration on spine. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with gilt top page edges. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 257 pages.
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