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Excerpt from The Threshold Joan Babcock felt the urge of the Evangel. It was her heritage, perhaps, from a visionary father; it was most certainly the outgrowth of "that state of life to which it had pleased God to call her." There are spirits conceived and born in revoAs she turned the key in the door of the cottage, where the first chapter of her life had been lived, she turned it just as surely on that past. She visualized swiftly the years that had gone before, the experiences and emotions, shut up, now, in that empty house to be left behind. She walked quickly down the sordid street of the industrial town, with a sense of release. She went into a store to leave the key for the agent of the house. "Where ye going now, Joan?" he asked her. "To Chicago." "Goin' to get a job there?" "Oh, yes, I hope so," she answered evasively. "We'll miss ye down here." "Thanks, Mike. I'll not forget my friends here." Her real farewells had been said the night before. 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.
Excerpt from The Threshold: A Novel He turned from this unsightliness into the broad square which had been named for his family. In the center of it the Courthouse stood with a majestic display of Gothic columns which had cost the tax payers of Cresston dear. The long, grassy slope of the lawn, shaded by ancient trees that were never trimmed, was a favorite lobby for the men who talked over the affairs of the nation in the open, and for loungers who fed on stray bits of gossip, and for small boys who did errands for a penny. But at this hour the lawn was empty and the shade of the great trees had turned it into dim aisles of coolness and beauty. Stray bits of paper moving in the breeze that came from the hot west were lifted lazily, like white butterflies hovering in the deep shadow. 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.
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Excerpt from A Stumble on the Threshold, Vol. 2 of 2 Perhaps it is not to the advantage of the successful candidate for University honours that at an age when the majority of young men are seeking for employment and the means of livelihood, he is placed above such anxieties for ever. It seems somewhat ridiculous that by the gaining a college Fellowship, all neces sity for work on the very threshold of adult life is done away with; and no doubt it has encouraged that lethargic indolence which, under the fine name of lettered ease, is so. 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.
Book Excerpt: p> "There are four of them, our friend Chichester being the senior one." "And you have 'placed' them all?" "I thought I had, I thought so--but--" Mr. Harding was silent. Then, with a strange abruptness, and the air of a man forced into an action against which something within him protested, he said: "Mr. Malling, you are the only person I know who, having been acquainted with Henry Chichester, has at last met him again after a prolonged interval of separation. Two years, you said. People who see a man from day to day observe very little or nothing. Changes occur and are not noticed by them. A man and his wife live together and grow old. But does either ever notice when the face of the other begins first to lose its bloom, to take on that peculiar, unmistakable stamp that the passage of the years sets on us all? Few of us really see what is always before us. But the man who comes back--he sees. Tell me the honest truth, I beg of you. Do you or do you not, see a great change in Henry Chichester?" Read More
