The Olympian

Excerpt from The Olympian: A Story of the City Mirrors over the nickeled wash-basins threw back myriad electric lights, and the air was blue with tobacco-smoke; in the smoke he wanted to visualize the liquid blue eyes, the full lips, the light golden hair of this woman who had awakened him, who had chained on his armor and set lance in his hand to send him forth on youth's great modern adventure, the City. Her voice on summer nights was remembered; the pressure of her hand had gone into his brain and made him powerful. And the fact that she was Professor Hadden's wife and all of twenty eight years old made no difference: she was woman - and he was twenty-four. 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.