Excerpt from The Open Door What went on behind those closed shutters, none of them knew for a certainty. Why the woman who lived there chose to be so secretive, was quite beyond their comprehension. What her appearance was like, they hadn't even the ghost of an idea; for, as each of them knew, Kitty Flint had never crossed her threshold into the street for fourteen years. Some one ought to go over there and ask Miss Flint, in the name of public morality, to keep her shutters open. This ultimatum, Mrs. Colston, who ...
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Excerpt from The Open Door What went on behind those closed shutters, none of them knew for a certainty. Why the woman who lived there chose to be so secretive, was quite beyond their comprehension. What her appearance was like, they hadn't even the ghost of an idea; for, as each of them knew, Kitty Flint had never crossed her threshold into the street for fourteen years. Some one ought to go over there and ask Miss Flint, in the name of public morality, to keep her shutters open. This ultimatum, Mrs. Colston, who lived in the first of the brownstones, delivered to her husband one evening at dinner across a really pyrotechnic display of cut glass, Haviland and silver. 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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