Excerpt from Beyond Compare, Vol. 1 of 3: A Story She sat on a ridge of shingle which stretched along the shore like a broad blue ribbon decorating the yellow sand. A market basket lay beside her; and whilst the light breeze gently waved the brim of her straw hat, her dark blue eyes gazed up from under it at a man who stood close by, leaning on a serviceable staff. He was looking thought fully seaward, and, the sun being high but behind them, his shadow lay black and short before him. 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.