Excerpt from Loveliness: A Story This little creature loved a number of people on a sliding scale of intimacy, carefully guarded, as the intimmies of the high-born usually are; but one he loved first, most, best of all, and pro foundly. I have called him Loveliness because it was the pet name, the little name, given to him by this person. In point of fact, he answered to a variety of appellations, more or less recognized by society; of these the most lawful and the least agreeable to himself was Mop. It was a disputed point whether this were an ancestral name, or whether he had received it from the dog store, whence he had emerged at the beginning of his tory, the shaggiest, scrubbiest, raggedest, wildest little terrier that ever boasted of a high descent. 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.