Excerpt from Niobe<br><br>The quiet, grey eyes he encountered were firmer than his own. He had no intention of frightening or overawing her; he only wanted to reveal to her what was at the bottom of his heart, to let her clearly understand that no contradiction or per suasion, or any kind of reasoning whatever with him afterwards, when he had quieted down, would be of any use.<br><br>After a hurried walk round the room, during which he was apparently seeking an object on which he could vent his anger, he sat down again in his armchair.<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.