Excerpt from The House of Mystery: An Episode in the Career of Rosalie Le Grange, Clairvoyant Dr. Blake, the physician, on the other hand, caught a certain languor in her movements, a physical tenuity which, in a patient, he would have considered diag nostic So transparent was her skin that when her profile dipped forward across a bar of sunshine the light shone through the bridge of her nose - a little observa tion charming to Blake, the man, but a guide to Blake, the physician. She had the look, Dr. Blake told himself, which old-fashioned country nurses of the herb doctor school refer to as called. He knew that, in about one case out of three, that look does in fact amount to a real call - the outward expression of an obscure disease. 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.