Excerpt from Owen, a Waif, Vol. 2 of 3 Yes, it was a disappointment, after all - one of the greatest and the most acute, because Owen would not confess to himself that he had ever had a r1ght to think of Ruth Dell. Therefore his morbid feelings, and a sense of having lost his chance of the greatest, brightest reward that his hopes could look forward to and long for, were all nuwar rantable. His duty was to check those feel ings; he would be a very child to Show them to the light, and let the few friends Whom he owned be Witness to such foolish weakness. He was a. Man, and would live down all disappointment; his should be a heart for ever hard to guess at! 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.