The Girl and the Guardsman (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book The Girl and the Guardsman (Classic Reprint) written by Alexander Black and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Girl and the Guardsman The girl had looked into various volumes which lay near the open bookcase. She had pursued the un literary method of review which consists in opening the book in the middle and letting the pages spin under the thumb. Nothing which she had discovered by this exhaustive system of examination had definitely aroused her interest in the books at hand. Nor had an occasional strug gle with a whole page of verse, here and there, seemed to gratify the impulse which had led her, after dusting the bookcase daily for some months, finally to search its contents. 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.