Letters To Betsey Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from On Duty and Off: Letters of Elizabeth Cabot Putnam Shipping her home. I am not sure whether or not she is French. She is absurdly rouged and belladonna-ed, has champagne hair done very high over cushions, and wears enormous ear-rings, white silk stockings and high-heeled slippers, and a very slight costume. Mr. Sedgwick assures me she consumes large quanti ties Of champagne whenever it goes, and it goes very Often, as you get here for two dollars what you pay eight dollars for in New York. The last two evenings I have sat out on the deck near enough to a group of excellent singers to be able to sing with them unperceived. One evening a man came along and sat with me, in the pitch dark (no lights allowed, all windows covered), and we had a long and pleasant talk (he was a travelling man from Oklahoma), but I have no idea what he looks like and he probably does n't realize that and thinks I cut him dead next day. You see he saw me when he opened the door to let me in, but I did n't like to turn round and stare at him. A brilliant pink sunset to-night promises fair weather for to-morrow. We don't want it too fair, as submarines can't work well in rough seas. We have had one drill which consisted in putting on a life preserver and standing at a given place on the deck. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.