Excerpt from The Story of the Gadsbys: A Tale Without a Plot Went home at half-past ten, after discoursing for twenty minutes on the responsibilities of house-keeping. You now drive a mail-phae ton and sit under a Church of England cler gyman. Iam not angry, Jack. It is your kz'smet, as it was Gaddy's, and his ez'smet who can avoid? Do not think that I am moved by a spirit of revenge as I write, thus pub licly, that you and you alone are responsible for thisbook. In other and more expansive days, when you could look at a magnum with out flushing and at a cheroot without turning white, you supplied me with most of the material. Take it back again - would that I could have preserved your fetterless speech in the telling - take it back, and by your slippered hearth read it to the late Miss Deercourt. She will not be any the more willing to receive my cards, but she will admire you immensely, and you, I feel sure, will love me. You may even invite me to another very bad dinner - at the Club, which, as you and your wife know, is a safe neutral ground for the entertainment of wild asses. Then, my very dear hypocrite, we shall be quits. 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.