Excerpt from Wild Rose, Vol. 2 of 3: A Romance Jack got up rather late this Monday morning, and breakfasted, as he often did, alone in that den which was to him library, smoking-room and studio. For, freed from the fetters of examinations, he now spent his time in painting, a pursuit to which he was devoted and worked really hard at, and it had the result of filling his sanctum with a delightfully mixed atmosphere of lead, linseed and tobacco, which the pure morning air pouring in at the window did its best to disperse. 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.