Excerpt from The Tang A spring twilight in the city of New York - her sordidness painted with the rose of the afterglow, powdered with pale blue and violet mists and decked with tiny gems of yellow light. Through a high window hung with purple and gold one of her many lovers looked upon her with young grim eyes that for the first time pierced her tinsel veil and saw her ugliness. In his hand, violet-scented, crumpled, lay the messenger of her betrayal. "Dear Danny: "You can tell by the length of this, I know, that I have something important to say to you. I have - and I was a coward to take this way of doing it instead of telling you last night. But I just couldn't, Danny, while you were right there being my wonderful pal as perfectly as ever, and looking like everything that is handsome and thoughtful and in love all done up in one package and addressed to me. 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.