Tom Sylvester: A Novel
Thomas Russell Sullivan
Paperback
(Forgotten Books, July 18, 2017)
Excerpt from Tom Sylvester: A NovelThat charm is all gone now. It faded away slowly but surely, as the color leaves the petal of a rose. The first pufl' of steam blighted it. One tall factory-chimney showered down a little soot into an old fashioned garden, which was soon ploughed up to give the lofty intruder a domineer ing fellow. So, by degrees, Worthingham outgrew its gentle nature, and became the noisy, manufact uring centre that we know to-day. There are no longer any tiger-lilies and four-o'clocks in its shrunken flower-beds. Everywhere has cropped up a crude, pretentious ugliness, too glaring, as suredly, for endurance. In this later hour, which is but an hour that casts a fleeting shadow upon the dial, it is newer and younger than it used to be. It is like some honest rustic, clad for a day in ill chosen garments and finding himself ill at ease.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.