Excerpt from The Tale of the Ten, Vol. 1 of 3: A Salt-Water Romance One moonlight night two men stood at the extremity of a point of land that jutted into the black ripple of Sydney Bay. The moon rode high and rained a light that floated in the air in a mist of splendour; the vision was overwhelmed by the brilliance; the dark shore on either hand the spot where the two men stood sank into visionary streaks a little distance from them, and looking across Sydney Bay was like being at sea. 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.