Excerpt from The Life and Letters of Hugh Miller, Vol. 2 of 2 Many as are the happy circumstances which we have noted in Hugh Miller's life, it is to be re membered that, at the age of thirty-two, he still finds himself a stone-mason; and that he is ardently attached to a lady, whom he has inflexibly re solved not to marry while he continues to earn his bread by the labor of his hands. The scheme of emigration to America, almost insuperable as were his objections to it, begins to be again entertained. "My mother," says Mrs. Miller, "had at length agreed, if nothing suitable turned up, to give us three hundred pounds of mine, of which she had the life-interest; and with this sum we were to face the great wilderness." 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.