Excerpt from The Gentleman's Magazine: Volume 268, January to June, 1890 He was of course thinking of Blanche. He had, indeed, thought of nothing else for the last six months. But now, as he lounged there comfortably, his brow was contracted into a frown, as though the subject of so many pleasant meditations were after all suggestive of disquietude at times. He turned to look at the little group in the drawing-room beyond, -his mother smiling over her magazine; his father staring at the fire, his sharply knuckled hands now grasping his gold-headed cane, now spread to the glow, without which his chilly old frame could not do, even in these last days of summer; and, still knitting, still reading, Blanche Gressell, the cause of a week's troubled happiness to him, the cause of a future which just now looked very cloudy. 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.