Lady Charlotte

Excerpt from The Lady Charlotte: A Novel "You seem to have made yourself pretty snug down here!" said Arthur Ellison, stretching his limbs comfortably over the chintz-covered sofa, and settling his fair head into the solitary cushion with which his cousin had provided him. "Why shouldn't I?" said Esther, a little sharply, as if she discerned a possible reproach in the words. "No reason in the world. I may smoke, I suppose?" And without waiting for her consent, he exerted himself so far as to extract a cigarette from a silver case, and to light it with a fusee which diffused a pleasant aromatic odor through the room. Esther watched him silently, with a doubtful look. When the cigarette was well alight between his lips, he laid his left arm behind his head, and surveyed the apartment with an air of quizzical satisfaction. 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.