Excerpt from John Maidment, Vol. 2 of 2Now it happened that John Maidment at his club fell in with one of those young men who represent most clearly the reaction from he languid swells of twenty years ago or more. This was a very smart and sanguine young man, who was charged with an excess of vivacity, who prided himself on being on familiar terms with all sorts of people, and called almost all his male acquaintance by their Christian names.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.