Excerpt from Narcissus In the large low room where the boys sat they were surrounded by four walls of books. These were mostly in calf, and they seemed to send a mellow golden radiance out into the very atmosphere. In several of the books Papa figured, and as Mr. Carmichael had died when his sons were too young to remember him, their idea of the paternal relationship was centred round someone who dispensed information by these suave means. J immy, who always read him, some times added to Papa's voice a note of deep untimely sternness (it was apt to occur at any moment quite independently of what he might be saying). And they felt they had a fairly complete effigy of a father. 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.