Excerpt from The Triumphs of Time, Vol. 2 of 3 The old man laid down his trefoil; and sat rebuked and silent. There's your tea for you, good man come, eat your breakfast for once and have done with your idle fancies. Gerald 'had during this time taken his seat at the breakfast-table; and when Miss Hughes looked that way, the delightful vision of a remarkably handsome, elegant looking young man met her enchanted eyes. 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.