Rush-Light Stories

Excerpt from Rush-Light StoriesHer companion was as different as their two races. He came from Egypt, where he had been born a thousand years before our era. His figure was stouter and more heavily modeled than the nymph 's and his arms were folded on his breast with an immobility which characterized his whole person. A blue tunic was modestly drawn about him like the cerements of a mummy, and truth obliges me to confess that he was somewhat blue all over. Dignity sat upon every feature and, while he did not look his age, he seemed to have lived a life of suppressed emotions. Owing to his pose and the swathing of his limbs, he had escaped muti lation.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.