The Prima Donna A Passage from City Life (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Prima Donna: A Passage From City Life But to me this confirmation Of my fears brought with it a degree of discomposure for which I was myself unprepared. I had sustained a loss, which pressed for the moment heavily upon me - the loss of that Object of secret sympathy which responds to our emotions, though in tears that we are not permitted to see, and in sighs that we cannot hear. I felt the privation so seriously, and my curiosity had been so highly stimulated, that I could no longer keep within the house, and actually sallied forth, on the wild-goose chase of looking-up the fugitives in such a city as New York. 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.