Far to Seek

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Excerpt from Far to Seek: A Romance of England and India By the shimmer of blue under the beeches Roy knew that summer - really truly summer! - had come back at last. And summer meant picnics and strawberries and out-of-door lessons, and the lovely hot smell of pine-needles in the pine-wood, and the lovelier cool smell of moss cushions in the beech-wood-home of squirrels and birds and bluebells, unfailing wonderland of discovery and adventure. Roy was an imaginative creature, isolated a little by the fact of being three and a half years older than Christine, and 'miles older' than Jerry and George, mere infants, for whom the magic word 'adventure' held no meaning at all. Luckily there was Tara, from the black-and-white house: Tara, who shared his lessons and, in spite of the drawback of being a girl, had long ago won her way into his private world of knight-errantry and romance. Tara was eight years and five weeks old, quite a reasonable age in the eyes of Roy, whose full name was Nevil Le Roy Sinclair and who would be nine in June. With the exception of grown-ups, who didn't count, there was no one older than nine in his immediate neighbourhood. Tara came nearest: but she wouldn't be nine till next year, which made all the difference, because by that time he would be ten. The point was she couldn't catch hip, up if she tried ever so. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.