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Excerpt from The Spirit of the Town: A Novel Presentation in Fiction Form of the Impulse and Desire Which Mould the Lives of Men A man's life is like the surface of a lake, reecting alternately the black clouds and the bright sunshine, and stirred constantly by the winds of unrest. So has it been with me, although for a time it seemed as though my sunshine would never break through the murky horizon that shadowed my existence, but now the sky is clear at last, and I will speak. 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.