Excerpt from A Woman of the World: An Every-Day Story<br><br>Q the air was chill, and a heavy dew, white as rime, still lay upon the field and lawn, covering the earth with a silvery freshness. Overhead there was whiteness too, for a veil of mist shrouded the sky, and thin threads Of cloudy vapour hung on branches of trees and moist edges of ponds and hedgerows; or, breaking loose from their hoary moorings, floated upwards, evaporating and melting before they reached the downy whiteness of the mists above. In the east was a golden region, dazzling in the centre and fading to whiteness through yellows and iridescent greys; and here and there ragged, quickly-closed rents in the floating vapour showed that beyond this misty glory was a sky of brilliant burning summer blue.<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.