"Send-off" Quotes from Famous Books
... and there were seventeen copies of the book piled in a pyramid in the middle of the table. After supper one was given to each guest. They must have made a merry night of it, for Isabel notes that the gaieties began at 11 p.m. and did not end until 5 a.m. Notwithstanding this auspicious send-off, the book did not reach anything like the success achieved by her first work, The ... — The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton Volume II • Isabel Lady Burton & W. H. Wilkins |