Excerpt from Gerald and His Friend the Doctor, Vol. 2 of 2: A Record of the Experiences of Certain Young Men Would Harry have yielded to temptation of any kind from woman's looks had he been Leila's accepted lover? Probably he would sooner have been torn in pieces by wild horses. But then he was no poet, and could live without sympathy and he certainly would not have admitted for a moment the idea of waiting for his wife till he met her in heaven. Gerald had conquered. But how to face the poor girl whom he had petted and smiled on till it was only too plain that her whole happiness - perhaps even her health and life - were bound up in that kindness and those smiles? How was he to break off that fatal intimacy - cut short those sweet interchanges of benefits and thankfulness - how face his own dreary lot and send her away to misery? He could not go to his lodgings the evening following the receipt of that letter, but went wandering about in the February gloom and darkness thoroughly dejected and remorseful. 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.