Excerpt from The Veiled Hand: A Novel of the Sixties, the Seventies, and the Eighties They were both very striking in appearance, and both young. He was not twenty-two, and she was still younger by nearly a year. Her chief characteristics were gentleness and trust and self-devotion; and his, imperious command and bitter resentment towards those who thwarted him. Commonplace people would have described these attributes of his as selfishness, and some others as evidence of a proper pride; While all the world knows that a young' girl, all tender ness and love and hope, is an enemy to herself when matched in strife with daring egotism. 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.