Excerpt from Peter Sanders, RetiredSomewhat more heavily than was his wont, Mr. Peter Sanders mounted the steps to his front door. For the first time since he had been living in the house, he noticed that the entrance was perhaps a little sinister, as it was certainly forbidding. He had always been rather proud of the front door, in point of fact. It was his own invention, and nicely calculated in its oiled and massive perfection to fend off intruders. It had barred out the curious and the hostile, but it had opened almost of itself to welcome safe gentlemen with plenty of money.What gave the door a new aspect in the eyes of Mr. Sanders was the interview from which he was just returning. He had learned that the door must hereafter remain closed, not only to friends and to strangers with satisfactory introductions, but to its owner also. At least, Mr. Peckham, the eminent lawyer who had for a long time seen to it that Mr. Sanders did his business with the minimum of disturbance, had spoken quite firmly about the matter.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.