Excerpt from The Talk of the Town; A Novel, Vol. 3 of 3: In Three Volumes You must just have crossed on the road, said Stephen at the end of Chapter XL, Vol. Ii. It was freezing where he and Mr. Tresham stood, and that reminded him where he Was, and made him remember to ask the visitor indoors, And now being as it were master of the house, Stephen had to make Mr. Tresham welcome, aware all the while that George, whom he -prayed for and trembled for, must already be at Norton. So God's will be done! 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.