Excerpt from A Daughter of to-Day: A Novel Miss kimpsey dropped into an arm-chair in Mrs. Leslie Bell's drawing-room and crossed her small dusty feet before her while she waited for Mrs. Leslie Bell. Sitting there, thinking a little Of how tired she was and a great deal Of what she had come to say, Miss Kimpsey enjoyed a sense Of con sideration that came through the ceiling with the mufiled sound Of rapid footsteps in the chamber above. Mrs. Bell would be down in a minute, the maid had said. Miss Kimpsey was inclined to forgive a greater delay, with this evidence Of haste ful preparation going on overhead. The longer she had to ponder her mission the better, and she sat up nervously straight pondering it, tracing with her parasol a sage-green block in the elderly aesthet icated pattern Of the carpet. 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.