Excerpt from Winifred Bertram and the World She Lived That carpet on which the foot sank noiselessly as on the softest mossy turf, those soft draperies and languishing chairs and sofas, those bronze stat nettes and quaint vases, what imagination could ever dive so far as to trace them back to factories and warehouses, to the hammering and screwing and planing and stitching of working men and women? N 0! They must have floated into their places like the furniture of Aladdin's palace, like the stones at the voice of Orpheus, at the call of a genie, to the sound of fairy music. 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.