Excerpt from The Real World Earlier in the afternoon, before the mist had blotted out the usual aspect Of affairs, his sister had come from the house to entice him from his post; she had tried to soften the keen edge of his disappointment with a piece Of candied ginger. But she was an ineffective person, whose chief Offices in life were feebly consolatory. After the fashion Of those whose dull perceptions are incapable Of sounding the gulfs of grief, she believed that soft words and candied ginger were adequate poultices for all woes. Thus he had clung to his post by the picket fence, not encouraging with a reply this offer Of weak sympathy. The silence, the moving illusory figures, were a pleasanter balm than any she had to Offer 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.