The Blindness of Virtue (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Blindness of VirtueAn anaemic nursemaid with a rosy child hanging on each hand joined the spectators, deliberately taking up a position on a spot where she and her charges would certainly be severely damaged by the horses should they, in mounting the incline, get upon the pathway, as happened frequently. In ones and twos others came up - a postman, a chemist's boy on a bicycle, a groom mounted on a corky pony, and a local tradesman, who from his illiterate, pompous, and wholly fatuous remarks to any one who would listen to them might have been a member of the Parish Council, and was.A barge-horse clattered among the loose stones on the tow-path under the bridge, straining at the rope tied to the nose of a low-lying, gravel-laden barge, out of the many-coloured cabin of which a vermilion-faced woman thrust her head and shoulders, with a hand upon the tiller. The barge cleared the bridge, and a little ragged girl, with turnip - coloured hair, who sat with her bare legs dangling over the side of the barge, shouted shrill blasphemy at the group on the bridge. A man dressed in the red jersey and peaked cap of the Salvation Army rode up on a bicycle, dismounted, and leaned upon his saddle, with a grin upon his villainous face.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.