Excerpt from A Saint in Mufti: A NovelThe Major, it will be seen, had a nice aesthetic sense, even though he happened to be one of those unfortunate persons whose ideas are more profound than their purses. But, said he, I am a man of the world, and the world is an Open book of life wherein all may read, but which, happily, only the few read to advantage. I am one of the few. Though what advantage he had ever gained was as nebulous as the gold pieces in his pocket.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.