Excerpt from Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Vol. 1 I did not then, nor do I new, find any beauty in these 'ceremonies. What had they to do with the sweet play ful child? Her life and death were alike beautiful, but 'all this sad parade was not. Thus my first experience Of life was one of death. She who would have been the 'companion of my life was severed from me, and I was 'left alone. This has made a vast difference in my lot. 'her character, if that fair face promised right, would 'have been soft, graceful and lively; it would have tem pered mine to a gentler and more gradual course. 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.