Excerpt from The Gambler's Wife: A NovelHe well remembered how once he had dis dained the winding path down which he was now tempted to wander, preferring rather to run from the top to the bottom of the slope, at the imminent peril of being precipitated into the blue lake below.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.