Excerpt from The Brass Bottle AS he sat at the window of his Office in Great Cloister Street, Westminster, he made his thoughts travel back to a certain glorious morning in August which now seemed SO remote and irrecoverable. At this precise time he was waiting on the balcony of the hotel de la Plage - the sole hostelry of St. Luc-eu Port, the tiny Normandy watering-place upon which, by some happy inspiration, he had lighted during a solitary cycling tour - waiting until She Should appear. 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.