Excerpt from The Magpie, One of the Ephemerals Yes; but never mind. I'll go and get you some thing to eat, and then we can talk it over at our leisure. He left the room, slamming the door as he went out. The young man stood in front of the fire, turning around from time to time as the front or the back of his body got too warm, but avoiding a near approach to the flames for fear of chilblains. After getting well warmed, he sat down in a rocking chair and almost dozed away, so sleepy had the change from the cold and the wind made him. In about twenty minutes the older man came back with an appetizing meal on a striped japanned tray. 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.