The Shadow Line

Excerpt from The Shadow-Line: A Confession Only the young have such moments. I don't mean the very young. No. The very young have, properly speaking, no moments. It is the privi lege of early youth to live in advance of its days in all the beautiful continuity of hope which knows no pauses and no introspection. 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.