Excerpt from Pharais: A Romance of the Isles On the same eve the cruel sorrow came to her that had lain waiting in the dark place beyond the sunrise. Alastair, her so dearly beloved, had gone, three days earlier, by the Western Isles steamer to the port of Greenock, thence to fare to Glasgow, to learn from a great professor of medicine con cerning that which so troubled him both by reason of what the islesmen whispered among themselves, and for What he felt of his own secret pain and apprehension. 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.