Excerpt from Enchanted Hearts: Dramatized as a Prince There Was Mrs. Prouty's boarders always counted the houses after they turned into West sixty-blankth Street. Of course this was not entirely necessary, for Mrs. Prouty's number was quite visible above the door. It was rather the result of habit acquired during the early dusk of winter evenings when Mrs. Prouty's sense of economy would not admit of lighting the hall light until fifteen minutes before the dinner gong sounded. On such evenings there was no distinguishing mark about the Prouty boarding house - pardon; Mrs. Adeline Prouty's exclusive family residence - which extended the privilege to a few favored souls of housing them and furnishing more or less adequate bodily sustenance in consideration of varying sums per week! To call it a boarding-house in the presence of the hostess herself was to subject once's head to the out-pourings of vials of wrath. 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.