Excerpt from Sentimental Studies: Stories of Life and Love It is one of the tragedies of a big city that we live next to people who could be our friends and whose friends we could be, but whom we never meet. We pass them daily; a change in the familiar surroundings would cause us to wonder and be curious, but we rarely take the initia tive or trouble to inquire. We know we should lend our help if needed. But don't want to proffer it. And, therefore, we walk on and don't turn to the right or the left: ships that pass in the night. 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.