Excerpt from Day-Dreams I had traveled almost every mile of the earth, and seen everybody and every thing worth seeing by the time that I was thirty. Upon that particular natal day, I found myself in Berne, Switzerland. N o sooner had I arrived, than a letter was handed me. It came from my man of business, askin me to return to London at once, as H gson, my next-door neigh bour had died and there remained some property matter to settle which needed my personal attention. 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.