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Excerpt from In Plain Air
Miss Clayton once said of herself that she was very loosely put together, but she never realized this so strongly as when she was in the presence of Miss Dempster's moral and mental compactness. There isn't room for so much as an enter ing wedge, she thought, as she saw Alice, after dinner, produce a neat work-bag and begin a piece of embroidery. 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.
