An Absent Hero (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from An Absent HeroThe silver clock on the mantelpiece chimed the half-hour. Linda glanced up from the book She was reading, Cecil had said she would be in by five, but half-an-hour, one way or the other, meant very little to Cecil. This room, with the Silver clock, silken wall-draperies, heavily scented ¿owers and accumulated ornaments, was Cecil's, of course. No one would have needed more than the proverbial half-eye to be quite sure that it did not belong to Linda, or, rather, that she did not belong to the room.For one thing, the room made a point of its beauty, and Linda called herself plain, as a protest rather than an assertion. She certainly was not plain, though She had no special pretension to beauty. She spoke of herself as commonplace, unnoticeable she had, perhaps, no characteristic that called for immediate notice, yet, once noticed, she was not easily forgotten. This was partly due to her eyes. She herself bestowed on them the grudging admission that she supposed they served.'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.