Excerpt from The Sentence of SilenceShe spoke with that air of assumed age which she conceived to be fitting in a married woman, albeit a newly-married one; and yet those citizens of the little town Of Americus who remember Sarah Barnes as she was in 1871, say that, at twenty-eight, she looked no more than twenty.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.