Excerpt from Christie's Faith The stragglers round the gates of the Union where union is weakness - did not moralize after this fashion, or take comfort from the great rules by which they were starving in the streets that night. They were angry, a few of them, the sturdiest and strongest, at the night porter's inflexibility; they discredited the assertion, made behind the little 1ron grating from which the trap dropped now and then, that the place was full; had been full for hours, and was running over with fugitives luckier than the out siders-with old hands, who had come early to the feast, and fought hard for a night's board and lodging. 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.