Excerpt from The Greater Waterloo: A Love Story There's the bell, he murmured after a pause, nails again and screws, I'll be bound. Thank heaven I will hear heavier lead soon, cannon and death-shot. He nipped the second candle and stumbled in the dark to the shop door. Good-evening, said a strange, cheery voice, as he entered. Give me a hammer and some half-inch tacks please. Tacks, tacks, nails again, thought Karl, as he mechanically drew out a box labelled half inchers. He had, however, caught the tone Of the stranger's voice, and the order for a hammer was some variation from the usual one. 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.