Excerpt from Barbara Goes to Oxford Off on a little jaunt. I hope that it will not strike you as being too unconventional in character. I want to go somewhere where I know no body and no one knows that I am a rich person; it is so dull always to behave as becomes a young lady of for tune; I want to taste the joys of a humble but sufficient lodging, and the pleasures of frugal but elegant house keeping. To do this under ideal condi tions, and in a manner which should not. 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.