Excerpt from The Lady of Dreams Dick was an intimate and particular friend and used a friend's privilege of saying what he pleased; Jim used the other and more valuable privilege of paying not the slightest attention to what was said. He didn't mind Dick, so he was in the habit of saying; he had not minded him through all the years of their intimacy; he never minded him now, and he was always glad to see him whenever he chose to find his way eastward to the quiet square. Dick often found his way there, most usually late at night, al ways when things went wrong and equally al ways when he had nothing better to do. Jim never suffered from nothing to do or from things going wrong, and any hour of the night suited him to receive visitors. The last, so he suggested to Dick, was one of the advantages arising out of living without system and in a muddle. Dick - he had dropped in somewhere about eleven o'clock that wet night - pointed out that irregular hours did not necessitate a room in which it was impossible to sit down without first clearing a chair, and not always easy to clear a chair because the accommodation on the floor was already extensively occupied by the results of past clearings. 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.