Excerpt from The Watchmaker's Daughter and Other Tales The watchmaker's dark eyes expanded, his teeth set, his breath came with a rush through his nostrils, he gripped his long lean hands until the sharp nails pierced the palms; but when the busybody had concluded her narrative, turned on his heel, and left her without a word of either thanks or rebuke. 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.