Frank Norris 
Blix [EPUB ebook] 

pub One.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. It had just struck nine from the cuckoo clock that hung over the mantelpiece in the dining-room, when Victorine brought in the halved watermelon and set it in front of Mr. Bessemer’s plate. Then she went down to the front door for the damp, twisted roll of the Sunday morning’s paper, and came back and rang the breakfast-bell for the second time.