The Argosy Vol 33 PDF Download

Excerpt from The Argosy, Vol. 33 The mid-day train from London, through the south-western counties, had just passed Ravenstoke Station. It was one of the quietest stations on that line; only two passengers had alighted. One, who stepped from a first-class carriage, was an acute-looking elderly gentleman, with iron-grey hair, who carried a brief-bag in his hand. He went briskly up the narrow hilly footpath from the station, looking to the right hand and the left like one whose business it was to see all there was to be seen. The other was a third-class passenger, and she was a small, slight girl, certainly not more than twenty years old. She was very plainly and simply dressed - she might even have been called shabby, but for the careful preservation of her garments, and the freshness of the white frills about her neck and wrists. Her face, too, was sweet and pure and bright; not strikingly pretty, perhaps, in the eyes of such as prefer dahlias to lilies, not a face to rave about, but a face alive in every feature to the gentle motions of a true and innocent soul. The gentleman had walked straight through the station. The girl lingered, and then spoke to the homely old station-master. "Is there any hotel or inn near here, where you can recommend me to go and get some lunch, and where I could remain for the night, if I find it necessary?" The old man looked at the girl. "You go to the White Hart, miss. You'll be well looked after there. They are kind folk. It's the station hotel, d'ye see. Everybody who has to wait at Raven stoke puts up there. You'll find it quiet and comfortable." But the girl hesitated. 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.