Excerpt from The Firefly of France All this would have been spared me. But, on the other hand, I could not now look back to that dinner on the turin-paris rapide. I should never have seen that little, ruined French village, with guns booming in the dis tance and the nearer sound of water running through tall reeds and over green stones and between great mossy trees. Indeed, my life would now be, comparatively speaking, a cheer less desert, because I should never have met the most beautiful Well, all clouds have silver linings; some have golden ones with rain bow edges. No; I am not sorry I stopped at the St. Ives; not in the least! 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.