Enemy to Society

Excerpt from An Enemy to Society: A Romance of New York of Yesterday and to-Day Snow and sleet in Washington Square when Betsy, bundle girl for Madame Francesca, climbed on the blue omnibus that emerged from the foggy mist, the horses that drew it veritable fire-breathing dragons with their snorts and their smoke. A vista of soggy black earth with a few snow patches, gutters running aimless zigzag streams, water dropping drearily from the black skeletons of trees, and fantastically decorated chimney-pots where a flake or two had persuaded other flakes to stop and keep them company - that was Washington Square at four o'clock in the afternoon of February 7, 1888. 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.