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Excerpt from The Second Book of Tobiah
Josiah had at that time reached almost more than middle age a grave man, and one who had all his life worked so hard as to have neither time nor inclination for light pleasure, or even those of a more serious sort. Doubtless it was owing to this that he had not found opportunity to woo and wed a wife, and so was growing grey in loneliness. Drusilla first saw Coote on a day when her father sent her to pay a tax that the town at that time levied on the Jews. She was waiting her turn to pay when the Mayor passed through the office where the moneys were received. He was a Shortish man, though strongly built, with already small lines about his mouth and eyes. He crossed the office to Speak with the clerk, and as he bent to the man he caught sight of Drusilla and seeing her, stopped as he was, half bent, but not speaking, looking at her as if he had never seen a woman before. And in some sorts he truly had not, for there are two ways of seeing them - the one is the way a man sees women, and the other is the way he sees the woman and that last way sometimes comes early and sometimes late, sometimes often and some times (though rarely) but once. But when it comes for the first time it is a revelation, and, if a man is no longer young, something of a Shock. It was a shock when Josiah Coote saw Drusilla. 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.
