The Story of a Novel
And Other Stories (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Story of a Novel: And Other Stories<br><br>The guests had finally gone and the servants, fatigued by the excitement of the last busy days, retired out of sight; the house seemed to sink into the depths of the park, where the long unbroken silence aroused as always a longing in the woman's heart to play the game of imagination and revery.<br><br>She was twenty-seven, small, fair and slender, with an oval face pale as ivory; her eyes, the color of waves, were a trifle too large; they made her look a little older than her years. They were almost hidden under long eyelashes and glanced about with mingled distrust and expectancy.<br><br>There are women who are always expecting something: in their girlhood they await the coming of the man who is to love them, but when he comes, though they listen earnestly without the least perturbation, their eyes seem to say: "This is all very natural, but what next" It would be a mistake to consider such women cold and deliberating.<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.