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Excerpt from Quill's Window The older man sat on the ground, his back against the trunk of a tree that grew so near to the edge that it seemed on the point of toppling over to shatter the smooth, green mirror below. Some of its sturdy ex posed roots reached down from the bank into the water, where they caught and held the drift from upstream, reeds and twigs and matted grass, - a dirty, sickly mass that swished lazily on the flank of the Slow-moving current. The water here in the shade was deep and clear and limpid, contrasting sharply With the steel-white surface out beyond. 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.