Excerpt from Peter's Wife, Vol. 3 of 3: A Novel Cecilia had cared, however, and thought a great deal, and feared, perhaps, even more than Nell - but hers had been a glad terror. It was full of sweetness, of strange, unknown expectation, of the misery that fills the wine cup of life. Mingled with her fear, was a mad joy that would not be kept down, that sent her singing with a sweet passion through the gardens in the late morning, until some vague misgiving rose to kill the song. But underneath these misgivings, these sharp little pangs that caught her heart as if a child's hand grasped it - the music ever lay. 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.