Excerpt from Temptation and Atonement, Vol. 2 of 3: And Other Tales<br><br>Chiara, all the music and sketching and reading aloud, which they say goes on there from morning till night, would bore me to death. My cigar and game at billiards here at Z suit me a cursed deal better!<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.