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Excerpt from Phroso: A Romance
In fact, my dear lord, said old Mason to me when I called on him in Lincoln's Inn Fields, the whole affair is settled. I congratulate you on having got just what was your whim. You are over a hundred miles from the nearest land Rhodes, you see. (he laid a map before me.) You are off the steamship tracks; the Austrian Lloyds to Alexandria leave you far to the north east. You are equally remote from any submarine cable; here on the southwest, from Alexandria to Candia, is the nearest. You will have to fetch your letters. I Shouldn't think of doing such a thing, said I indignantly. 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.
