Excerpt from Cynthia's Ideal She always said so, whether she cared or not. It was a formula, expressing to some extent the trend of her mind, which was of the rebellious, recalcitrant order. She did not mean by it that she was either so callous or so unreasonable as many of her schoolmates and teachers thought her; only that she was impervious to argument when she happened to desire very greatly her own way. 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.