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Excerpt from One of the Visconti: A Novelette
There was a movement, an exclamation, a growing murmur of curiosity and surmise. Something rather like impatience even be gan to develop in the faces of the nearer passengers, as the steward, stolidly fixed in the doorway, set himself to a slow and heedful study of the address, now and then casting a mild, German eye up and down the thronged deck. Finally they saw him nod twice to himself in a reassuring manner. He had caught sight, far forward, of a man, who, with a gray coat thrown across his shoulder in the fashion of a mantle, stood gazing at the stony rise. 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.
