Excerpt from Dead-Sea Fruit<br><br>Amongst strangers? Were the inhabitants of this Belgian city any more strange to him than all the other inhabitants of this populous earth - except the one man and woman who made the sum total of his kindred and friends? Amongst strangers P Why, if the statue of Van Eyck could have descended from yonder pedestal to walk in the streets of the city, the animated effigy could scarcely have been a lonelier creature than the young man who passed to and fro athwart the sloping Shadow on the flags this July afternoon.<br><br>Looking backward through the shadows of the past, how many of those images, familiar to most men, were wanting in the mystic pictures that memory, presented to Eustace Thorburn!<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.