Excerpt from The Vortex: A Novel Possessing an artistic temperament, it was a tremendous solace for her to indulge her talent for music; while playing on her piano, passion made her momentarily forget her troubles. Often she wandered on, improvising as her mood listed, dancing gayly in major keys or dreaming idly in minor cadences, but she had another, stronger resource, and that was her religion. She was a Protestant, and, in the early days of their married life, before they began to live abroad, her husband always ac companied her to church, in the dear old far off home in Connecticut, but he had gradually given up the practice, and she now went alone - only to pray for aid and peace the more earnestly. 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.