Excerpt from The Restless Age A young man was standing near the door of the barn. In the lapel of his coat was a service button which told of service abroad. He was about twenty-three years old and, although he had been out of the army for over a year, he still showed the clear-eyed and clean-cut effects of his military training. His eyes were following the course of a distant train which was whistling for the stop at the village station. In another five minutes it would have stopped, taken on its passengers and then moved onward toward the great city, a hundred and fifty miles to the north. A look of restless discontent settled in the young man's eyes. His hand clenched and unclenched nervously. 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.