The Vigil

Excerpt from The Vigil His back was flat, his front was bow-windowed; and he walked like a man having authority. One felt that he was possibly a churchwarden, which happened to be the case, and that he had a reverence for the British Constitution, and was habitually con scious of the might, majesty, power and dominion of the British Empire. 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.