Excerpt from The Rival Queens, Vol. 3 of 3: A Story of the Modern Stage Provided with a coarse towel, and a piece of soap, he improvised the best toilette he could under the circumstances. Returning to the large room, he found his fellow lodgers preparing their breakfast. Some were making coffee, some tea and toast, some were frying herrings or frizzling bacon, and all were seasoning their prepara tions with highly-flavoured jokes, or playful little blasphemies. Two or three men sat apart, silent and sorrowful, evidently conscious of their degra dation, but the majority were canaille, who seemed rather to enjoy the situation. 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.