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Excerpt from The Man of Yesterday: A Romance of a Vanishing Race
From the front gallery of this house a young girl, looking through an archway of budding vines, beheld the coming Of the springtime to the quiet valley. She was leaning against a white pillar that brought out the rich colour Of her dark complexion and emphasised its exquisite tint. The face, lighted by large eyes with a haunting steadfastness of gaze, had a delicacy of outline and a regularity of feature that betokened a fine heredity. Lounging upon the steps at the girl's feet was a young man, broad-shouldered and deep chested, long Of limb and strong of arm. Like his com panion he had a dark skin, but in place of the Olive his face showed a deep brown that was burnished by exposure to the fierce sun. You are silent, Pakali, said the young man. It seems that you have little to say to me since your return from that St. Louis school this last time. He spoke in full tones with the slightest trace of a gut tural accent, and turned to her a face the strength Of which was emphasised by the straight lines of hair brushed back from the forehead. 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.
