Excerpt from On a Candlestick Cling! clang! cling! clang! chimed the great bell high up in the old stone tower among the ivy. The brown and white doves flew up and down along the dusty street, the green leaves stirred softly in the summer air, the yellow heads of the dandelions thrust their bright faces out between the flagging, and from each way along the city street came troops of happy children. But among them all, in the whole wide city, there was not one face Miss Beryl had ever seen before. 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.

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