Excerpt from The Complete Works of Frank Norris: McTeague and a Man's WomanOnce in his office, or, as he called it on his sign-board, Dental Parlors, he took off his coat and shoes, unbuttoned his vest, and, having crammed his little stove full of coke, lay back in his operat ing chair at the bay window, reading the paper, drinking his beer, and smoking his huge porcelain pipe while his food digested, crop full, stupid, and warm. By and by, gorged with steam beer, and overcome by the heat of the room, the cheap tobacco, and the effects of his heavy meal, he dropped off to sleep. Late in the after noon his canary bird, in its gilt cage just over his head, began to sing. He woke slowly, finished the rest of his beer - very ¿at and stale by this time - and taking down his concertina from the book case, where in week days it kept the company of seven volumes of Allen's Practical Dentist, played upon it some half-dozen very mournful airs.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.