Excerpt from Miss. Archer Archer: A Novel Miss dexter had arrived at that stage of sea sick misery where one fears the ship will not go down. She lay supine in her berth, and watched the garments hanging on the opposite wall sway out toward her, as if they had suddenly become sentient, and, tired of inaction, were coming over to discover the cause of her doing so long Without them. Especially did the big buttons on her ulster glare at her like curious eyes, nearer nearer, with the strain and quiver of the ship, which this time heeled over with such persistence that it seemed an impossibility that it could ever right itself. But Nathalie Dexter had no hope of this. The motion had recurred too often. She knew the ship would right itself, and she turned her head away from the glare of the fiendish button-eyes and the smothering effect of the advancing dress brigade. 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.