Excerpt from Steeplejack, Vol. 2 Did you ever hear the story of the man who proposed remarriage to his divorced wife? She was one of the old guard who sighs but never surrenders. A skinny girl with guilty eyes, her soul had become a slumbering forest. But she was faithful to her alimony. There fore, when her husband became imprudent, She calmly answered: You always were so impetuousl He was one of those men to whom God has given a forehead as Russian peasants say of the bald. Her pent-up cas cades of tenderness not freely ...
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Excerpt from Steeplejack, Vol. 2 Did you ever hear the story of the man who proposed remarriage to his divorced wife? She was one of the old guard who sighs but never surrenders. A skinny girl with guilty eyes, her soul had become a slumbering forest. But she was faithful to her alimony. There fore, when her husband became imprudent, She calmly answered: You always were so impetuousl He was one of those men to whom God has given a forehead as Russian peasants say of the bald. Her pent-up cas cades of tenderness not freely flowing he went away in a huff and remarried his other divorced wife. But the first lady's bank-account knew no husband. She re mained single and an alimonist in perpetuity. It was certainly the end of an imperfect day. The moral is not afar to seek. I had been unfaithful to my birth place. I had hankered after the flesh-pots of Paris. These failing, I had returned to my lawful first love. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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