Excerpt from The Hero and the ManReturning from a brief business trip he called upon Alice one evening toward the end of that happy and prosperous year, and was met by her with a grave, troubled, questioning look such as he had never before seen in the sunny depths of her frank blue eyes. She did not long leave him in doubt as to the cause of the shadow resting upon her usually gay spirits.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.