Excerpt from The Reflections of a Lonely Man Hen a man has just been well fed, and sits in the easy comfort of his smoking-jacket and slippers, he likes to toy a while with thought before he settles down to the serious business of thinking, as the wind Of a late November afternoon eddies in the fence-corners and amorously dailies with the leaves, before it forms itself into a steady gale, which, let us hope, will not blow all the leaves away. SO the Lonely Man sits gazing into his gas fire, while his fancy playfully eddies in the various nooks and fence-corners Of creation; and, from gazing into the fire, he presently falls to musing about it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.