Excerpt from Sowing the Wind, Vol. 1 of 3: A Novel The two who sat in the midst of all this luxury were in keeping with their surroundings - young and beautiful as was befitting; wedded, loving, and happy. The one was a man of the type which some call elegant, and others distinguished - tall, and slightly built, but with shoulders too narrow and drooping for the firmer kind of 'manly beauty, and with a habit of carrying his head turned over the left shoulder shyly, which gave him a boyish and retreating expression, as of one afraid to expose himself - a man who never stood square, face to face and chest broadside, but always a little turned edgewise, with one foot in advance of the other; and the habit was as expressive as it was instinctive. His face was a long oval, and of a sallow hue; his hair was black, and fell in soft locks naturally waved. 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.