Excerpt from A Romance We have created a river life since those days. The Thames is much even to the twentieth century. Clubs arise on every hand. The Blues to-day drive over from Windsor to the vales below Hambledon and, it may be, have a poor title to accuse their forefathers. There is no prettier thing in modern life than the water pageant; none so readily acknowledged at the zenith of the summer. But that which is changed is the fundamental notion of a man's honour and of the price he must pay to defend it. 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.