Excerpt from Lavril a Novel The tenderness of their voices explained their impatience their anxiety was evidently on account of the young girl. She threw off the shawls which were wrapped about her and straightened up her slender form. Her face, in a tangle of yellow hair, seemed, in the light of the lamp above, singularly pale, with her gleaming hollow eyes, wonderful eyes, prominent and very near together, shining like orbs of greenish gold. A subtle fire, a soul keenly alive, animated her feat ures with an inward glow like a porcelain night-light; and she seemed equally flicker ing and restless, at the mercy of a breath of air which would extinguish this glow, or a touch which would break the fragile Saxony of which she seemed formed. 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.