Excerpt from Against Human Nature: A Novel She was hurrying along the road with her shawl wrapped so closely about her that her thin shoulders, with their sharp bones, were defined so plainly that one could not help being sorry for her. Her shawl was striped blue and white, the blue having gone into the white and the white into the blue on that occasion. Long ago, when its owner tried the experiment of washing the garment. She always said she guessed she made a mistake in put tin' sody into the water, but she shouldn't make the same mistake again there was that much about it. She wore a black straw hat with What was called a dish brim. This brim made an excellent shade now over the upper half of her face. Only the narrow chin and small mouth were in the sunlight. This light revealed relentlessly the two long wrinkles, one on each side of the mouth, and the sagging of the cheeks which begins to come soon after middle age. Where is the patent-medicine man who will take away that last dreadful Sign of the years from the aging woman? In doing that he will seem to annihilate time, and will also become fabulously rich. 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.