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Excerpt from Wives and Daughters, Vol. 2: An Every-Day Story Old Silas lay in a sort of closet, opening out of the family-living room. The small window that gave it light looked right on to the moor, as it was called and by day the check curtain was drawn aside so that he might watch the progress of the labour. Every thing about the old man was clean, of course; and, with Death, the leveller, so close at hand, it was the labourer who made the first advances, and put out his horny hand to the squire. 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.