Excerpt from With Edged Tools: A Novel MY dear - madam - what you call heart does not come into the question at all. Sir John Meredith was sitting slightly behind Lady Can tourne, leaning towards her with a somewhat stiffened rep lica of his former grace. But he was not looking at her - and she knew it. They were both watching a group at the other side of the great ball-room. Sir John Meredith on Heart, said the old lady, with a depth of significance in her voice. 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.