Excerpt from The Shadow, a Story of the Evolution of a Soul Accompanied by his wife, who was short, coffee coloured, and energetic, with twinkling br'own eyes deep set under level brows, Mr. Mauritius Smith walked round and round the upper deck, wearing a greenish overcoat with collar and cuffs of grey fur, blue flannel trousers, canvas shoes, and a remarkable Andalusian-looking hat of hard black felt, low and flat in the crown, firm and flat and broad in the brim, with a guard fastened at the back and attached to a buttonhole Of his inner coat. 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.