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The President (Illustrated). E-book. Formato EPUB Alfred Henry Lewis   -  Bauer Books, 2024  - 

On this far-away November morning, it being ten by every steepleclock and an hour utterly chaste, there could have existed noimpropriety in one’s having had a look into the rooms of Mr.Richard Storms, said rooms being second-floor front of thesuperfashionable house of Mr. Lorimer Gwynn, Washington, NorthWest. Richard, wrapped to the chin in a bathrobe, was sitting muchat his ease, having just tumbled from the tub. There was ever a recessin Richard’s morning programme at this point during which hisbreakfast arrived. Pending that repast, he had thrown himself into aneasy-chair before the blaze which crackled in the deep fireplace. Thesudden sharp weather made the fire pleasant enough.The apartment in which Richard lounged, and the rooms to the rearbelonging with it, were richly appointed. A fortune had been spilledto produce those effects in velvets and plushes and pictures andbronzes and crystals and chinas and lamps and Russia leathers andlaces and brocades and silks, and as you walked the thick rugs youmade no more noise than a ghost. It was Richard’s caprice to havehis environment the very lap of splendor, being as given to luxury asa woman...