Excerpt from Mrs. Craddock Dear miss ley, - You will not consider it unflattering if I ask myself when exactly it was. That I had the good fortune to make your acquaintance; for, though I am well aware the date is not far distant, I seem to have known you all my life. Was it really during the summer before last, at Naples? (i forget why you go habitually to winter resorts in the middle of August; the reasons you gave were ingenious but inconclusive - surely it is not to avoid your fellow-countrymen I was in the Gallery of Master pieces, looking at the wonderful portrait-statue of Agrip pina, when you, sitting beside me, asked some question. We began to talk - by the way, we never inquired if our respective families were desirable; you took my reputability for granted - and since then we have passed a good deal of time together; indeed, you have been seldom absent from my thoughts. 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.