Excerpt from Against Wind and Tide, Vol. 3 of 3 In their home there were the means and the taste for all essential refinements; not wealth, but competence; not learning, but fancies and preferences for certain books and certain authors which, in the long winter evenings, Robert read aloud while Lilian sewed; and if the last half-hour Of this reading was accomplished with Lilian perched on Robert's knee, her arm round his neck, and her soft cheek very close to his, I don't think either book or author lost by the arrange ment. 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.