Excerpt from Annette and Bennett: A Novel He was too ill to talk so much. There was, of course, a woman in attendance, a pathetic little creature who resented my intrusion and was jealous of his finding so much to say to me, for her very movements told how silent he must have been as he thought and laughed and wove together in his mind all the jokes of his career. He felt her jealousy and appeased it by asking her to bring him a glass of water and me a highball, which is American for iced whiskey and soda. 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.