Excerpt from From Lands of Exile I dedicate this to the memory of a noble and exquisite woman, whose never-to-be-forgotten image rises before me, strangely vivid, whenever I have time to think. These notes from the far away Yellow Land were originally written for her aloqe; I used to send them to her out of the distance, as a sort of chat to amuse her during the long, weary months while she was slowly fading out of life - slowly and with a serene smile. From those letters grew this book, as forlorn now as my life is. 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.