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Excerpt from A False Start, Vol. 1 of 3: A Novel
The long lazy rollers surge Slowly in, and a glorious autumnal sunset gilds the salt water as Maurice Enderby looks out over the sea-wall from the Spa at Scarborough on the departing day. A sea this Without much life in it, a sail here and there in the far offing, but no such flood of traffic as runs by the Sea-ports on the English Channel. 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.