Modest Mignon Classic Reprint

Author : Mrs. Forrester
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781330687307
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book Mignon, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) written by Mrs. Forrester and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-04 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Mignon, Vol. 1 It is afternoon of the - th of June. Mrs. Stratheden is "at home." But Mrs. Stratheden's "at homes" are very different from the general run of those vapid and dreary entertainments (heaven save the mark!) that are made nowadays to do duty for more genial and costly hospitality. Men go to them, yes, actually men; not decrepit old fellows nor unfledged youths, but men, - the sort of men you see in club windows, on four-in-hands, at St. Stephen's and elsewhere. The State, the Bar, the Army, are represented in her drawing-rooms, and, very occasionally, the Church. There is one pleasant-faced, cheery-mannered divine of most eloquent tongue and practical good sense, who thinks a half-hour now and then not at all ill spent at one of these reunions. People do not come here as they do to most "at homes," thinking it an awful bore and resolving to get away again as Boon as possible; and indeed who would not rather be rolling through the pleasant cheery streets in their carriage, than crushing toilettes and rubbing angry shoulders in a social bear-garden in the struggle to catch the hostess's eye - poor bewildered woman I that she may know they have not neglected to honor her reception. Reception! there is not one Englishwoman in five hundred who knows how to receive far less to entertain. I should doubt if there are ten women in London who could invite fifty people to an "afternoon" and send them all away pleased and satisfied. I should be sorry to be asked to put my hand upon the nine; but Mrs. Stratheden would be the tenth, or rather, perhaps, the first. 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."