Excerpt from Lady Baby, Vol. 3 of 3: A Novel The five minutes having passed, Maud began to pick her way back again towards Samuel Foote's shop - not indeed retracing her former steps, but taking a direction which led her to the further side Of the building which he inhabited. There was no window at that side, and cautiously creeping along the wall she Sharply turned the corner, and without a. Pause or a knock raised the latch of the door. To her surprise, she found herself confronted by nothing but the sleek and dazzling countenance Of New York, who still sat squatted in the centre of the table. Of Samuel Foote there appeared in the first instance to be no trace; but as she slowly advanced into the room, Maud noticed an open door which she had not before observed, prob ably owing to its being papered like the walls. 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.