Excerpt from The Twymans a Tale of Youth Percival meanwhile considered the future as settled, and for the present continued to think the thoughts that lay nearest him. He loved all games - cricket above the rest: but he had an equally strong taste for the reading of poetry, of which he assimilated enormous quantities, and the mysteries of heraldry, which expressed for him a whole rainbow of feelings and ideas, none the less brilliant because it would be many years yet before he possessed any spectro scope of his own capable of analysing them. Cricket was of course unorthodox in November, so that to-day, on his return from his tutor, he had only to decide whether he would use the hour before tea-time for reading or painting. 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.