Seymour Charlton

Author : William Babington Maxwell
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780259433941
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (339 download)

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Download or read book Seymour Charlton written by William Babington Maxwell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Seymour Charlton: A Novel ON a May evening, sixty or seventy men had gathered together for dinner in a London picture gallery. It was the inauguration of a new dining club. The club had been founded for the purpose of meeting at dinner from time to time, and for the entertaining at dinner of distinguished visitors when Opportunity offered. Speech-making had now begun, and all the speakers dwelt upon this truly British dinner-idea as though there lay hidden in it something of novelty and grace. There was a table across the top of the room, and from each end of it stretched a long side table. At the bottom of the room, near the wide entrance, an estrade and a piano had been introduced. On the walls hung the usual sort of pictures: fantastic things rejected by the Royal Academy, wild impressions of land and sea, many portraits staring out of dark backgrounds, two or three large studies of the nude one, the largest, of a woman who has just stripped herself in an artist's studio. The hired waiters had ranged the empty champagne bottles in rows by the skirting boards, had distributed newly opened bottles along the tables, had brought the coflee, and liqueurs in queerly shaped flasks. As the chairman said, addressing the company with heavily genial tones, there was cause for satisfaction in the successi of this first meeting of their club. Members and guests applauded each time that a speech came to an end; and then immediately began talking as if they still had much of interest to discuss. The voices, mingling, made a confused and stupid roar. If one sat silent and listened, the noise appeared extraordinary. 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.