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Excerpt from Degarmo's Wife and Other Stories
For nearly two centuries the Degarmos had been rich; for nearly two centuries they had been looked up to by those who were not rich and by the newly rich. The Degarmos were at once the pride and the chagrin of Saint X - the pride because they were real aristocrats and because their house was a palace, would have made a re spectable showing even among the mansions of the autocracy in the big cities; the chagrin because they were no longer really residents of Saint X, but had become expatriates, dwellers in New York and London and Paris. The main 'line of the family had dwindled to a sister and a brother. 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.
