Excerpt from The Human Cobweb: A Romance of Old Peking Mrs. John West nodded sympathetically and allowed the General to mount his favourite hobby-horse, Whilst secretly she listened to what was going on at the other end of the table. Her husband was trying to effect a compromise between the two extreme parties of peace and war which had suddenly arisen, but he was not very successful. Even the ladies had taken sides, and Phyllis, in a sudden spirit of opposition, added fuel to the flames by declaring aloud that she ...
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Excerpt from The Human Cobweb: A Romance of Old Peking Mrs. John West nodded sympathetically and allowed the General to mount his favourite hobby-horse, Whilst secretly she listened to what was going on at the other end of the table. Her husband was trying to effect a compromise between the two extreme parties of peace and war which had suddenly arisen, but he was not very successful. Even the ladies had taken sides, and Phyllis, in a sudden spirit of opposition, added fuel to the flames by declaring aloud that she thought Peter Kerr was so thoroughly unpatriotic that he deserved summary treatment. Kerr, though he affected to laugh with everybody else, soon appeared Openly annoyed at the attention he had drawn on himself. Making an effort, he now attempted to pass it all Off as a matter of small importance. 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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