Excerpt from The Comet of a Season, Vol. 1 of 2 On a soft evening of late summer, a young man and a young woman sat on a bench in a small public park just outside one of the great northern towns of England. They were apparently watching the setting of the sun. The sight was beautiful enough to have won the attention of any two young people, if we still cling to the fond idea that young men and women do really care much more for nature and her charms than the seniors with whom the world has been too much, and whose sun therefore may be supposed to have. 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.