The Philosophers of the Smoking Room (Classic Reprint)

Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Philosophers of the Smoking Room They were sitting in the smoking-room, when the clergyman entered and took a place upon the lounge beside the Doctor, with a courteous "Good evening, gentlemen!" It was the first night after leaving Liverpool, and the Carinthia's passengers were looking forward to a glorious, if probably uneventful, passage to Montreal. Last night they had come aboard late; and, hand-shaking and leave-taking over, had gone to bed. In the morning they found themselves already far from the land. That curious ocean-voyage intimacy, the relic of sailing ships, had not yet broken the ice of casual acquaintanceship; but, in the smoking-room, the men at least, were beginning to feel their conversational legs. 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.