Excerpt from Alice or the Mysteries, Vol. 1 of 3: A Sequel to Ernest Maltravers I grant, that the Hero of this Narrative is far from perfect; and had his principal faults been corrected in the course of the preceding Volumes, the Reader would have been spared the Sequel. It is be cause his errors of action and of judgment were not yet counterbalanced or amended - it is because his opinions were often morbid and unsound - it is because his sentiments were nobler than his actions. 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.