Excerpt from Daunay's Tower: A NovelDaunay's Tower, looked up and down the solid mass of masonry with a half-puzzled, half-indignant air. She had come all the way from her house on Cross Fell, at half-past ten o'clock on a stormy night, and now it seemed as though the place were deserted, as though she might wait and wait in vain for the commission with which, as she understood, she was to be charged.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.