Excerpt from A Burglary, or Unconscious Influence, Vol. 3 of 3 Sary to introduce the reader to her new friends, the millionaire croesus-hoggs. The croesus-hogg family was five in number, and consisted of the father and mother; two daughters, named respectively Guinevere and Victoria; and one son, named Guelph Whatever charges might be brought against these people, over refinement was certainly never likely to be one of them, as their appearance and manners would effectually give it the lie. Indeed, some persons thought that their standard of breeding was hardly near enough to that which generally prevails amongst ladies and gentlemen to allow of their being admitted to the society which esteems itself to belong to the upper ten. But then it was only a narrow-minded and prejudiced minority who took that view, and in the eyes of the majority of the world, the enormous wealth possessed by the croesus-hoggs was sufficient to atone, almost, if not altogether, for any deficien. 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.