Excerpt from A Philippine Romance In the long stream of carromatas, carra telas and modern American equipages, was a victoria drawn by a conspicuous pair of high steppers, and toward its occupants the eyes of social Manila were directed; some curious, some envious, but all interested and perforce admiring. The young woman who leaned back against the cushions of the Victoria was of an unusual type; a subtle blending of the East and the West, with her slender grace, bright hair, and dark eyes; not the great lustrous, languorous orbs of the Oriental, but ever-changing eyes, brimming one minute with mischief, life and eagerness, and the next dreamy and thou ght ful, full of mysterious shadows. She was different from her countrywomen whom she passed on the drive, not alone by reason of her beauty and vivacity, but because of her strangely enthralling and captivating personality - that rare gift of the gods. 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.