Excerpt from Sydney Lisle: The Heiress of St. QuentinA rainy November afternoon was drawing to its close. The sun had set in a haze of fog, to which it gave a ¿eeting warmth of colour. The street lamps were lit, and chinks of light Showed here and there through the shuttered windows of the tall, dingy houses in a dull old square not far from Euston Station.Yes, chinks of light were coming from almost every house, casting little gleams of brightness on to the wet pavements and rusty iron bars guarding the areas but from one, the last in the square, considerably more was to be seen.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.