Excerpt from The Yellow Van On the other hand, he was well to look at, in a quiet, non-obtrusive, manly way, and his manners were almost as good as her own, though just a trifle tainted by the arrogance of his birth-mark and of his training at Eton. He was one of those rare creatures the gentlemen of nature, which is as much as to say one who has the Christian, or for that matter the pagan, virtues in a social setting, and especially. The un willingness to give or to take offence. Above all, in spite of the magnificence which was as yet his own secret, he sought the harvest of the quiet eye, the quiet mind, and had a lively horror of pribble prabble and all pretence. 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.