Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale

Excerpt from Adrienne Toner: A Novel Come down to Coldbrooks next week-end, will you, Roger? Said Barney Chadwick. He had been wandering around the room, pausing once to glance at the C?sar Franck on the piano and once at the window to look down at the Thames, and his voice now, though desultory in intention, betrayed to his friend preoccupation and even anxiety. There is going to be an interesting girl with us: American; very original and charming. 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.