Excerpt from Short Stories, Vol. 33: A Magazine of Select Fiction, January-March, 1899 A sigh of weariness was all answer to this, but he did no bet ter in his second speech. For, said he, complainingly, I am deucedly cold and starved, too, and would be the better for a glass of ale. Still no answer. I began to be curious to hear the lady's voice. How I regret this unfortunate accident, was his third effort. This time he was answered by a sweet, tremulous young girl's voice asking, How long was the delay likely to be? 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.