Life's Contrasts Air (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Life's Contrasts AirThe mother said they were difficult to get off to sleep to-night. They extracted a solemn promise that She would not tell Now all is quiet in the nursery above me. My wife has gone to bed, and the household is still. It is the hour I like to sit alone in my library, not reading, but musing and smoking my pipe.I shall be forty years of age to-morrow - and that brings thoughts. I remember when forty seemed the years Of an Old man, and I smile. How easily the years have gone Since twenty-five ago, a slim and gawky lad Of fifteen, I started earning a few Shillings a week in the dingy Office of a Small country newspaper. I looked forward to the time when, as a real reporter, I would be earning two pounds a week. That was the limit Of my ambition. Well, things have been much better than that - Oh, a great deal better, though I Often wonder why. Things are comfortable. I think I could afford a motor-car if my fancy ran that way - and the possession of a motor car is the modern criterion of well-doing. But I prefer Old furniture and pictures and books.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.