Excerpt from The Young Enchanted: A Romantic Story<br><br>Oun G Henry Trenchard, one fine afternoon in the Spring of 1920, had an amazing adventure.<br><br>He was standing at the edge of Piccadilly Circus, just in front of Swan and Edgar's where the omnibuses stopped. They now stop there no longer but take a last frenzied leap around the corner into Regent Street, greatly to the disappointment of many people who still linger at the old spot and have a vague sense all the rest of the day of having been cheated by the omnibus companies.<br><br>Henry generally paused there before crossing the Circus partly because he was short-sighted and partly because he never became tired Of the spectacle of life and excitement that Picca dilly Circus Offered to him. His pince - nez that never properly fitted his nose, always covered one eye more than the other and gave the interested spectator a dramatic sense Of suspense because they seemed to be eternally at the crisis of falling to the ground, there to be smashed into a hundred pieces - these pince-nez coloured his whole life. Had he worn spectacles large, round, moon-shaped ones as he should have done - he would have seen life steadily and seen it whole, but a kind of rather pathetic vanity - although he was not really vain - pre vented him from buying spectacles. The ill-balancing Of these pince-nez is at the back of all these adventures of his that this book is going to record.<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.