Excerpt from Mrs. Lord's Moonstone, and Other Stories Mr. Lord was a man of means. He had enough to do in looking after his real estate, collecting his rents, and clipping his coupons to keep him busy a good part of the time; and, being as fond of leisure as the average man of his years, the rest of his days he spent in idleness or in the indulgence of a taste which, with him, had grown to be little short of a mania, - the collecting of geological specimens. Geology was his hobby, and, if at times he seemed to neglect his wife, it was that he might explore this or that belt of country in which he felt sure he should find something of scientific importance. 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.