Excerpt from The House on Charles Street<br><br>They had reached the outskirts of the little town without encountering a single human being. Dur ing all that walk the voice of the Arveyron, angry as it seemed and threatening, had been the only clear sound. Now they became aware of another sound that mingled with it, sometimes afar off and stifled, sometimes nearer as if Just around the corner, but ever the same thin, desperate sound, that Of women weeping. By a common impulse the two set down the bag they carried, and turned to each other.<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.