Excerpt from A Golden Heart, Vol. 2: A Novel It is terribly unromantic this, no doubt; but then you see it is true, nevertheless. When men in England were reading, with flushed faces, the story of that Splendid charge of the Light Brigade - were ready to cheer over the breakfast-table, and wave their Times in frantic enthusiasm, as they learned how the gallant brigade rode straight through the hail of shot and shell roaring upon them from all quarters - were ready to cry with pride and grief when they Were told how few of the noble fellows came back alive from that avalanche of death, there were such things as tailors, say, who, when they found that of a certain regiment, that went into action so many strong, only about a third, scarcely a quarter, came back alive, went to their shelves, and taking down their books, looked to see how many customers they had in that regiment, and how many of them had accounts standing against them unsettled. 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.