Excerpt from The Happy Hypocrite: A Fairy Tale for Tired MenGeorge Hell. I will not trouble my little readers with a long recital of his great maugh tiness. But it were well they should know that he was greedy, destructive, and disobedi ent: I am afraid there is no doubt that he often sat up at Carlton House until long after bed-time, playing at games, and that he gen erally ate and drank more than was good for him. His fondness for fine clothes was such that he used to dress on week-days quite as gorgeously as good people dress on Sundays. He was thirty-five years old and a great grief to his parents.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.