Excerpt from A Valiant Ignorance, Vol. 2 of 3: A Novel She was sitting alone in her drawing-room one afternoon towards the end Of 'the second week Of their return she had a book in her hand, and a tea-table before her. But she had neither poured herself out any tea, nor could she be said to be reading. Every two or three minutes her attention seemed to wander; her eyes would stray vaguely about the room, and she would rise and move rest lessly across it, to give some wholly un necessary touch to a drapery or a glass Of flowers. Once she had seated herself at her writing-table to begin a trivial note but the impulse had failed to carry her through, and she had returned to her chair and her book. 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.