Excerpt from A Daughter of Music, Vol. 1 of 3 On a June day, when the air was still and the hot sun shone unshaded on the earth, a man walked' over the heath towards Heather Den. It was between five and six o'clock in the afternoon, but on the treeless heath the heat was fierce still, and the man looked worn with exhaustion as he plodded on. He had a thin, tired face; he was tall; his figure was spare, almost gaunt; his hands were large, nervous, and strong. 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.