Excerpt from The Household of McNeil They had been talking with much earnest ness, but as the shadows grew darker they spoke in lower tones and at longer intervals; the pauses being fitly filled by the boom of the muffled billows, or the cries of the watchful sea birds, shrill, unknown, secret cries, lending a weirder meaning to the silence. 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.