Excerpt from A Great Platonic Friendship, Vol. 1 of 3But now at last the sun has burst through the mass of cloud, and has dispersed it to the winds, and the peaks of the neighbour ing hills appear again on all Sides, looking very charming in the soft morning light.Several young men, dressed for the most part in flannel déshabille, are lounging about the verandah of the club, wearing on their pallid faces a look of intense ennui, which all the brilliant panorama stretched before their eyes has no power to disperse, for they feel that Shattered nerves, such as theirs are on this particular morning, require, to regain their normal vigour of action, a more stimulating pick-me-up than the Sight of a glorious stretch of mountain scenery.There has been a very big drink the night before, and the card-room has been in request till very late in the morning.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.