The Fortune: A Romance of Friendship (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Fortune: A Romance of FriendshipA greyness, the kind of greyness in which a multitude of different colours are enveloped, blended and subdued, hung over the bay, over the sentinel almost island of Howth, and over Dublin which lay outstretched on the intervening plain under its eternal faint' veil of smoke and mist. As the evening advanced, lights, like big yellow stars, appeared here and there and the greyness became darker. Out on the sea gleams of a brighter radiance had escaped from the grey sky, and a three masted barque, advancing towards the harbour under full sail, seemed to have caught them all in her out stretched, white wings. The black timbers of the ship were rich with colour against the greyness, and its great spread of canvas shone with what, to Harold Firbank's entranced eyes, seemed a more than earthly beauty.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.