His Own Home Town (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from His Own Home Town<br><br>Rain had fallen during the early afternoon, a wind-driven torrent, quit as much to be expected in that section, at that time of the year, as was the midday height of the mercury entirely seasonable. More than a few times the sun had broken through, only to be hidden immediately by the scudding clouds, which, dissolving, drove down in warm sheets, to splinter against the pavement like long and lancelike shafts of glass. And so, an hour after the storm had blown over as suddenly as it had come, there were still wet patches upon the cobblestones of the station square, even though the gutters had run off the last of the fouled and muddy water.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.