Excerpt from A Midsummer RoseIt was the little season between Christmas and Easter, when a certain number of people may be found in town ready to receive their friends and to give them an individual attention not to be looked for later on. Ralph Brether ton had a quantity Of cards on his Chimney piece - for the Opening Of the International and various winter picture-shows, for soirées and meetings Of this and that learned society, for dinners and At Homes. But the social engage ments which interested him most just at present were Offered to him through little scented notes, Of which a good many lay on his writing-table. Some of them were gaily re proachful. Why had not Mr. Bretherton found out that this lady or that lady was in town? Would he come for lunch on such a day and as much Of the afternoon as he could spare? Or it might be a little dinner-party of four or six or eight, all congenial souls.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.