Oliver's Kind Women (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Oliver's Kind Women Mr. Oliver Lumley was a young man of promise. He had good looks (in the mid-Victorian era he would have been called "Byronic"), good health, brains, a temperament, an ambition, and a spirit of adventure. If I were still a young man I should pray the good fairies to give me those qualities. With these natural gifts the world seems an easy thing to conquer. With such an outfit a young man of twentythree (Oliver Lumley was just on the verge of that) should travel far and fare well. Good looks and a gay heart are master-keys to open the gates of life. For a handsome young man with a fine clear-cut face and lips that soften quickly to a smile may be shabbily dressed, ma have no money to jingle in his pockets, may have no settled position in the world, but women will turn their heads his way and speak a word for him in good places, and grant a request which from a plain fellow, or from a man not ugly enough to be interesting, would be flouted. 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.