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Excerpt from The Days of My Life: An Autobiography And I was passing along, as I always did, quickly and, per haps, with a firmer and a steadier step than was usual to girls of my years, swinging in my hand a bit of briony, which, for the sake of its beautiful berries, I was carrying home, but which stood a good chance of being destroyed before we got there not taking leisure to look much about me, thinking of nothing particular, with a little air of the superior, the lady' of the manor, in my independent carriage - a little pride of proprietor ship in my firm footstep. I was going home - when there suddenly appeared two figures before me, advancing on my way. I say two figures, because in our country everything stands out so clear upon the great universal background of sky, that I could not so truly say it was a man and a boy, as two dark outlines, clearly marked and separated from the low, broad level of the country, and the arch of heaven, which now approached upon me. I cannot help an unconscious estimate of character from the tricks of gesture and carriage, which, perhaps, could not have been so visible anywhere else, as here, upon this at, unbroken road. One of these figures was a stooping and pliant one, with a sort of sinuous twisting motion, noiseless and sidelong, as if his habit was to twist and glide through ways too narrow to admit the passage of a man; the other form was that of a boy - a slight figure, which, to my perfect health and girlish courage, looked timid and hesitating the brightness of the sky behind cast the faces of the strangers into shadow - but my eye was caught by the unfamiliar outlines they were strangers, that was sure. 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 wor