Excerpt from Out of the Night For more than a mile that light had cheered on the wayfarer, exhaustion notwithstanding. When it was extinguished, something like despair took possession Of the benighted wanderer. She stopped short in the rutty lane, the water creak ing in her soaked shoes, and dripping down her White face. Then a last flicker Of nature's instinct of self preservation hounded her on: for the throbbing in her raw feet warned her that, should she sink to earth, she would not have the power to raise herself. 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.