Excerpt from A Prodigal Son, Vol. 2 of 3 It is believed the reader would give unqualified assent, provided the same opportunities for arriving at an opinion were available - the young mother bend ing over her baby son formed a very charming composition indeed, in every way Raphaelesque and beautiful. Wil ford, the St. Joseph of the group according to the picture-dealer, is still pale and gaunt-looking, but his dejected manner has gone; the grey has made no further advance in his locks and beard; his eyes are brighter; he' may be said, altogether, to look younger than when, two years back, he was recovering slowly from, his nervous ill ness. He is alert, active, industrious; for his life has now colour, and Object, and worth. He is a hard-working man of letters; who has achieved respectable. 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.