Sinossi
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II. October is nearly always melancholy in England; sadder than November, for November speaks in no doubtful accents of winter; sadder by far than winter itself, because the deadest months of the year have a beauty that is all their own. Beneath the snows of winter lie the warmth of spring and the glow of summer. Behind the storm there is the sunshine. October is all retrospect. The weather speaks but of the failing forces of the summer, the landscape tells only of the life of the year sinking to decay. I had always this feeling about October weather ever since I had consciously any impressions of the kind at all. I liked being out of doors, indeed, but it was that I might enjoy the luxury of nature's regrets. Since that October I have had other reasons. It came upon me suddenly. The great events of our lives, the sovereign crises of our fate, generally do so, and it is well. In surprise, more than in wine, there is truth. It is the real man who confronts the sudden shock, before reflection has had time to warp him into an artificial shape, or the thousand considerations that appeal to his feelings or his prejudices interfere to make him act by rule and speak in the accents of habit. In my own case, at least, it was sudden. I can remember it now as if it were yesterday. I was sitting in the Park half idle, half meditative. The influence of the season no doubt was upon me, and the sighing of the wind and the coloring of the trees helped to make me melancholy. At the moment few people in London had less to make them so. I enjoyed study, and study was my employment. I liked society, and our name and family connections ensured me more than enough of that. I had enough for my wants, opportunities for my enjoyments, a future for my ambition. I was not e...
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