Excerpt from Dickens' Short Stories: Containing: The Detective Police; Three Detective Anecdotes; The Pair of Gloves; The Artful Touch; The Sofa; Sunday in a Work-House; The Noble Savage; Our School; Our Vestry; Our Bore; A Monument of French Folly; A Christmas Tree; Etc The reader will'have the goodness to imagine the Sanctum Sanctorum of Household Words. Any thing that best suits the reader's fancy, will best represent that magnificent chamber. We merely stipulate for a round table in the middle, with some glasses and cigars arranged upon it; and the edito rial sofa elegantly hemmed in between that stately piece of furniture and the wall. 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.