Excerpt from The Price of YouthThe murmur, restless in itself, wrought in her a sense of restfulness, almost stupor. The sun on her closed eyelids was definitely warm, she seemed to be looking into a deep rose-coloured haze. She lay with out moving, every muscle relaxed, conscious only of the intimate nearness of the earth, its stir and whisper, the crooning of the pines overhead, the soft freshness of the sea air on her forehead.All at once the harmony was broken and blurred, the murmur shrank and ceased. Someone was call ing.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.