Quixstar (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Quixstar<br><br>It is a pretty little town Quixstar and knows it - or at least if you could suppose a town guilty of affectation, you could easily think that Quixstar sometimes tried to look more than usually interesting. If you looked out in the morning, for instance, and caught all the eastward windows flashing back the sun's rays like the eyes of a young beauty, while the buildings in grey shadow looked on with a kind of quiet wonder, as a timid chaperon might do, alarmed as to what would happen next; or at twilight of a summer's day, when the town folded its hands and lay back in its arm-chair; or by moonlight, when its very smoke seemed to be etherealized, and its steeple went right into the sky, one bright particular star standing by it, so near that the weathercock might have scorched his wings; or in winter, when it wrapped itself in ermine to the throat - if you watched - but, indeed, if you begin to watch any person, place, or thing, you will soon get more interested than you are aware of, and Quixstar was really an interesting town, worth watching at almost any time.<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.