Golden Lives: The Story of a Woman's Courage

Excerpt from Golden Lives: The Story of a Woman's CourageThere's the last, said Shorter, as he sent a batch of paper flying; and now we'll shut the window. There's nothing like a railway train for dispersing correspondence.But a Yorkshire moor was not oblivion. It happened that the wind was driving with considerable force almost at right angles to the train and as the fragments of Shorter's cor respondence left his hand they scudded along the sides of the carriages, rattling against the windows as they passed, and Spreading out like 'a fan, some going over the top of the train, some passing under, and other pieces sticking on the handles of the doors and other projections, pinned there by the wind. It chanced that among the passengers amused by the flight of the Shorter correspondence was a solitary occupant of a first-class carriage, named Joseph Eales, who raised his eyes from his book at the sound of the paper clattering on the glass. Eales was a young man of strikingly accu rate features, an excellent row of teeth, dark brown hair, and almost black eyes of singular keenness. He wore a travelling suit, and appeared to be of an amiable disposition, yet capable withal of pursuing a purpose with un faltering determination.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.