The Demagog (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Demagog With the privilege of long intimacy Zaidee Gonzales sat irreverently on the highly polished flat-top desk in the inner office of David Holman where the editor and proprietor of the Epoch was wont to give the permanency of paper and ink to his weightiest thoughts, and swung her small arched foot defiantly. "I hate her, " she announced so emphatically that it negatived the sincerity she sought to place beyond question. The woman's full, smooth, red lips were pursed in the pout of a spoiled child, it was a sensuous, extravagant, heedless mouth - the kind of a mouth where a man's soul might be wrecked on the dangerous curves. "Tut, tut, you don't even know her, " Holman chided. It was not so much a reproof as an aggravation to continue. "I hate her and her kind, " Zaidee retorted. With the petulance of a little girl, but with all the grace of a pretty woman fully conscious of her many alluring charms, she flung a glance over her shoulder at the man seated at his desk. Holman, with secret pleasure, resigned himself to her mood, putting aside thoughts of work as impossible in her presence. Often he had baited her thus just to see that pout and frown. "Look at her!" 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.