Excerpt from Dead-Sea Fruit Amongst strangers? Were the inhabitants of this Belgian city any more strange to him than all the other inhabitants of this populous earth - except the one man and woman who made the sum total of his kindred and friends? Amongst strangers P Why, if the statue of Van Eyck could have descended from yonder pedestal to walk in the streets of the city, the animated effigy could scarcely have been a lonelier creature than the young man who passed to and fro athwart the sloping Shadow on the flags this July afternoon. Looking backward through the shadows of the past, how many of those images, familiar to most men, were wanting in the mystic pictures that memory, presented to Eustace Thorburn! 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.