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Excerpt from The Stumbling-Block
Old Owen Owen christened her Cambria, and this was the way of it. Her parents were from the Cymric fastnesses Of Wales. They had come to London, knowing but little English, and reading his name over the shop front, and recognising it for that of a compatriot, they had taken heart and gone in unto him and asked him for a night's lodging. N ow, it was known throughout Hanger Lane that Old Owen Owen was a very hard man. The hardest man, however, has secret sweet chords among his heart-strings that the sound of his native tongue in a foreign land may touch to responsive vibration. For two score years Old Owen Owen had not heard that sound. It quickened his senses and warmed his blood like a draught Of generous wine. He put down the book he had been repairing and looked at his visitors shrewdly over his silver-rimmed spectacles. They stood before him with appealing faces, a strange, lost-looking couple. 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.
