The Three Lovers (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Three Lovers In the main streets the chain of assembled traffic went restlessly on, with crowded omnibuses and trarncars, with hurrying cabs, and belated carts and drays, as though the day would never cease. The footways were thick with those who walked, bent this way and that to meet and baf¿e the sweeping breezes. The noises mingled together in one absorbing sound, heard at a distance of many miles, a far undersong to the vehement voice of the country. Apart from the main streets, so crowded and busy, London was peculiarly quiet. If a door banged it was like a gun, and such a rumble provoked only a sudden start, and no constriction of the cardiac muscles, for Londoners were no longer accustomed to the sound of guns breaking night silences with their drum-like roll ings. Passengers in every direction instinctively hurried, making for shelter from the rainy draughts and the promise of storm. It was a subtly dismal evening, chilled and obscure. It was the real beginning, however prema ture, of a long hard winter. Those who had joys were sobered: those who had griefs were suddenly over powered by them, depressed and made miserable by the consciousness of unending sorrow. Nobody could re main unaifected by so startling a change in the atmos phere. All craved light and warmth and society. In a few hours the aspect of life had altered and winter fore bodings were upon the land. 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.