Excerpt from Sabina Zembra, Vol. 3 of 3: A Novel<br><br>Moreover, he had cultivated this habit of minute and patient picture-building for an especial reason. Once or twice it had occurred to him that his eyesight was not as good as it had been. Now an artist is naturally extremely sensitive on this point and it is hardly to be wondered at that in the solitariness of his life among the Canadian lakes, or on the wide Colorado plains, he should sometimes have been haunted by gloomy-forebodings. On such occasions he would summon his philosophy to his aid, and boldly face the worst. What, then, if he were to become blind? He had enough to live on. Probably he had given to the world the best he could do as an artist. He would retire to some place familiar to him - Galloway, most likely and spend there a by no means miserable existence for surely.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.