Book excerpt: Excerpt from Austin Friars, Vol. 1 of 3: A Novel A sentence sums up your Opinion. So be it. You will see plenty of her before this story is ended; wherefore, take your choice now, friend. Leave her at this point, or else agree to hear of her to the end. There is no gas in that room, but the light from a lamp falls down on her lovely face. Lovely I Speak I am writing now not as Yorke Friars impressed people at first Sight, but as they came to regard her after weeks, months, years. 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.