Tilting at Windmills: A Story of the Blue Grass Country (Classic Reprint)

ISBN-10: 0243417578
ISBN-13: 9780243417575
Series: Tilting at Windmills
Pages: 454
Language: English
Published: 2017-02-17
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Author: Emma M. Connelly

Description

Excerpt from Tilting at Windmills: A Story of the Blue Grass Country Finding it impossible to settle to counting-house work, he went abroad. He mourned poor Amy's loss with a grief that was Sincere; but he was not the broken-hearted man he imagined himself, and when he returned, after two years Of wandering, he was much improved, physically as well as intellectually. During his three years at home he had helped his father in the counting-house, edited a literary paper which suspended in its second year, leaving its editors unpaid, and written two books, one of travels, the other a military novel, both of which kept coming home with the publisher's painful regrets tucked away among their leaves. He is broad-chested and muscular, Showing the effects Of hard work at the gymnasium and in the saddle, good-humored, good-looking and considered very clever. He has dark eyes, with that inter mingling of amber which imparts brilliancy and is said to betoken genius. A deep indentation in his chin relieves from severity a strong, keen, energetic caste of countenance; the countenance Of a man who is not likely to dawdle at anything. The frown with which he regards the letter just handed him by the maid, denotes concentrated attention rather than perplexity or disfavor. 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.