Download or read book Phantom Fortune (Classic Reprint) written by M. E. Braddon and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-16 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Phantom Fortune People dined earlier forty years ago than they do now. Even that salt of the earth, the elect of society, represented by that little great world which lies between the, narrow circle hounded by Bryanstone Square on the north and by Birdcage Walk on the south, did not consider seven o'clock too early an hour for a dinner party which was to be followed by routs, drums, concerts, conversazione, as the case might be. It was seven o'clock on a lovely 'june evening, and the Park was already deserted, and carriages were rolling swiftly along all the West end squares, carrying rank, fashion. Wealth. And beauty, political influence, and intellectual power, to the particular circle in which each was destined to illumine upon that particular evening. 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.