Excerpt from Black Sheep's Gold When you are about it, added that chill monitor, you might as well recollect that you haven't two hundred pounds in the world, no people, now, who matter; no position, and no prospects. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. I did, with the result that, dressed, I hurried off at once to find the good-natured ship's gossip who, last night, had told me all but all about everyone and everything on board. She had not had quite time to tell me everything - not for want of will, or slackness of tongue - but for the reason that Pia Laurier in a frock like a rose-carnation, passed, unattended, just as the gossip was getting to the point of an interesting tale, and I had incontinently arisen, and fled after the carnation frock and its wearer. 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.