Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Faces for Fortunes, Vol. 2 of 3
Once - a long time ago - we got up at five on a cold morning to catch a train (poor sport), and on that. Occasion we visited our early birds opposite to see what they were doing, for our evil nature had often - perhaps in jealousy of their virtue - suggested that our neighbours must either be coiners of bad money or workers at an illicit still. So superhuman did this early rising appear to us, that we naturally concluded that vice alone could stimulate them to such exertions.
We remember that our stomach on that cold five o'clock morning was out of order, tetchy, like a too early awakened child, sulky for want of more sleep, and very spiteful; but they of this humble homestead were eating with smacking lips and hungry eyes, and sipping hot coffee greedily, as if the meal were behind time and long wanted.
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