The Head of Medusa
George Fleming
Hardcover
(Forgotten Books, Jan. 18, 2018)
Excerpt from The Head of MedusaAt the extreme end of this enclosure, a man of about five-and-forty, dressed in a rough gray shoot ing-coat, stood leaning against a tree and smoking. His face and general appearance marked him out at once as an Englishman. The absence of all acquaint ance on his part with any of the occupants of the various carriages showed him to be a stranger. He had been one of the first to arrive that afternoon.He stood facing toward the Trinita de Monti, look ing down the road. He could see each carriage a long distance off he watched each new arrival with the same quiet intentness of observation. Once or twice, when a closed landau passed him, he even moved forward sufficiently to look into its windows as it drove by, but his curiosity had thus far been rewarded only by the sight of some portly dowager wrapped in furs, or, as in one instance, by meeting the oblique, impassible glance of a priest.This persistency had ended by attracting the atten tion of the man who stood nearest to him, whose first look of inquiry had rapidly deepened into a continu ous stare. For a few moments he seemed to hesi tate, but, presently turning, he asked his neighbor for a light. The Englishman took a box of matches from his pocket, and handed them to him without speaking. His neighbor lighted his cigar deliber ately, and then, raising his hat.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.