Excerpt from The Prince of Graustark Moreover, when he called her my dear instead of the customary Lou, it was a sign of supreme ob stinacy on his part and could not, by any stretch of the imagination, be regarded as an indication of placid afl'ection. He always said my dear at the top of his voice and with a great deal of irascibility. 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.