Excerpt from The Federal Judge: A Novel The weather is not an important factor in this tale, if the following record of events, set down in their order and influencing one another so as to produce other events, may be correctly called a tale, - yet such was the beauty of the September morning when our chronicle begins, that it is per haps just as well to allude to it. One delights to set sail or to start on a long journey under a fair sky; and as there are shadows as well as sunshine in the lives of those with whom we are soon to become acquainted, it is well to begin with the sunshine in order to have an account to the good. 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.