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Excerpt from Carleton Grange, Vol. 1 of 3: A Novel
HE crimson glow left on the western horizon by the lately departed sun was rapidly fading into the pale subdued azure of a peaceful summer twilight, as, on a certain May evening some twenty years ago, the steamer 'british Queen, ' bound from Havre to Southampton brought her passengers safely within hail of the latter port. Considering that the regular travel ling season had not commenced, the vessel carried, a more than ordinary complement of passengers, representing the arrears of tra no accumulated during a previous long spell of rough weather. 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.
