Excerpt from Luck of the Year: Essays, Fantasies and StoriesWilliam Black (i said) I remember as a short man with strongly magnifying glasses, a bristling moustache, and a face of almost fierce redness, with an expression that suggested melancholy. He walked with decision, and mechanically.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.