Download or read book Simplicity and Fascination (Classic Reprint) written by Anne Beale and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-02-19 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Simplicity and Fascination We knock at the door, and are admitted by a rosy coun try girl into a passage, where is a stand of geraniums, and thence conducted into a large hall, where we will sit. Down in a corner, invisible as ghosts by daylight, and look about us. This hall is a substantial apartment, panelled with black oak. Heavy oaken rafters form the ceiling, and polished oaken planks the floor: over the middle of the latter is a piece of Indian matting. An oaken chimney corner usurps a third of one side of the room, on the hearth of which are placed two bright steel dogs, or andirons. Across these lie big logs of wood, that burn with all their hearts. And as if they took a pleasure in enlivening by their cheerful flames the party assembled near them. 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.