Excerpt from That Affair in Philadelphia Was I? I should think so. The Family Circle was ablaze, one glance almost blinded a man. There was something more to come. No one could think it. History was made quick and lively that night. Didn't the Mayor appear in the Royal Row, you see no one was expecting him, not there just then, and it made every one stare. But, dear me, when they saw a train of clerks close on his heels carrying a lot of big musty old books, they stared all the harder. 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.