Excerpt from Through the Long Night, Vol. 2 of 3Such ties as Anthony might have had out there in the Wild West-such loves as might have brightened his life and softened the ruggedness of his self-elected path - were either buried beneath the church-yard clay, or had been washed away by some great tidal wave of change - estrangement - who knows what? In any case, there was no reason why he should not give his thoughts, his dreams, his fancies to Anne Aspline, or to any other. And in truth he was in the mood which makes what is called a marrying man, ' - ready to fall inlove with the first likely girl who presented herself.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.