A Place in the World (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A Place in the World There is a kind of man who appears to be fashioned in circles. His body is a collection of curves topped by a round and shining head. His soul is as round and polished as his body, with no mad and jagged comers to scarify society's epidermis. Even his life is a circle, for, as a rule, he will die, as his temperate habits deserve, at a ripe old age, on the very thresh-hold of infancy once more. So long as there happens nothing to disturb him, such a man will run his course, without much detriment to his fellows, and quit the earth finally, if unhonoured and unsung, at least unmoved. And it is possible that to live or to die in a state of indifference is not so great an evil as it sounds. Just such a round and shiny man was Henry Cumbers, who rented "Applegarth" at ninety pounds per annum. It is quite superfluous to describe him. The trains that run to Greater London about six o'clock contain his double many times over. 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.