Excerpt from A Woman of Mind, Vol. 2 of 3: A Novel He never could understand that some of us, at least, have heart, and dignity, and disinterestedness, and he could not ap preciate the extreme painfulness of the position in which he has placed me. He might, however, have known me better than to suppose that I should accept a husband to whom I was awarded with the property, like an odd lot at a sale. The position would be as unpleasant for you also, Gilbert, as for me. No man likes to have a Wife thrust down his throat in so summary a manner. You would like, I suppose, to have had the excitement of proposing yourself, instead of having it done for you, with due legal formality, through a will. It was unkind of my father to treat me with as little courtesy as if I had been a bale of goods. 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.