Excerpt from The Young Lady's Book: A Manual of Elegant Recreations, Exercises, and Pursuits Your cousin, young ladies, said Aunt Elinor, wishes to look round Lady Mary's boudoir again, to see if anything has escaped his notice. This was a very mysterious announcement. Lady Mary, after looking earnestly, first at her aunt, and then at Penelope, as if she were desirous of reading an explanation in their eyes, exclaimed: Escaped his notice, aunt! I cannot conceive what you mean. 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.