Excerpt from The Rented Earl He was not at all imposing in appear ance; save for a burning eye, a general air of excitement, and a complexion to make women envious, he was a picture to be skied in life's gallery, and forgot - if he let you. As regards age, he might have been twenty six, he might have been forty. The strong est evidence I can offer on this point is, if twenty-six, he had no business to be bald, which he most certainly was. 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.