Excerpt from Will Is the Cause of Woe, Vol. 2 of 3: A Novel It was a fresh, breezy afternoon, the white clouds floating rapidly across a blue sky, the sea leaping and dancing in the sunlight, with ships in the distance, all under full sail, taking advantage of a favourable wind to make way. It was one of those bright, cheering days we enjoy sometimes in England during the early autumn; a day that seems to brace one up, mentally and bodily; a day on which trifling troubles cannot depress, but weighty sorrow falls with a double violence from sheer contrast, as a dark cloud in the sky becomes densely black if the sun shines out on it. 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.