Second Wife (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Second Wife The library of John Chase's town house was a beautiful room, a warm luxury glowing from the silken draperies of red. Its stately magnificence made a fitting frame for the loveliness of the girl, who just now stood high aloft on a step-ladder in a pose of unconscious grace that showed to best advantage the lithe roundness of the virginal form. At the moment, she held her arms outstretched to the utmost in the final, successful effort to adjust according to her fancy a photograph swung by a wire from the cornice. The picture, which was evidently an enlarged reproduction, contained two figures, a woman and a child. 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.