Excerpt from My Enemy's Daughter, Vol. 1: A Novel IT is a wet Sunday evening in the leaden heart Of London. I am now in the Bloomsbury region; and perhaps I need hardly say that nothing on earth could be more dull, dingy, and unpicturesque in itself than the prospect from my windows. Yet just now, in the deepening gloom Of a rainy dusk, I seem to look on something not unlike one Of the most picturesque and romantic scenes where on my eyes have ever rested. Ich weiss nicht was soll es bedeuten; but the ridges Of the houses Opposite begin to show through the steam ing mist fantastically like the outlines of the hills I used to see every day years ago, and the broad blank lying between me and over the way may vol.i. B. 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.