Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Drift I've been sitting here on deck to watch our. City out of sight. Liebe, you have the harder part; you stay behind. Isn't it a queer inver sion of things, that it should be I, the woman, who loves and rides away? 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.