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Excerpt from Evelyn's Folly: A Novel HE Scotch express was just starting. It was a bright, ii warm afternoon in September, and the railway sta tion at Euston Square looked more cheerful than usual. There was the usual noise, bustle, and excitement. Cab after cab had driven up, deposited its load of passengers and luggage, and driven away; there was a ringing of bells, and the confused voices of men, porters growing angry as they became busy; and the express from London to Aberdeen was to start at three, and it wanted now but one quarter of an hour. There were not quite so many passengers as usual. Perhaps the saddest group was that composed of five little motherless children dressed in deep mourning, who were ao companied by a careworn, haggard man with a deep crape band round his hat. 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.