Excerpt from Sheila Vedder Certainly it is not the life of yesterday, but when the tale is the tale of love, years make no differ ence. Love is everlastingly fresh and young. And as for daily life, it was good and bad then, just as it is good and bad now. For the glamour of hyperborean seas and skies, and the charm of a national life nearly passed away forever, do not alter the fact that men and women all over the civilised world are essentially the same. All live and move and have their being for love - love of God, love of family, home, and country, love of liberty, truth, and honour. So, then, as love can make the whole world kin, my little Shetland tale may slip into the hearts of men and women, whether they dwell in thousand-streeted cities, or in misty hamlets by seashore, or forest - al.l will understand it. Love is its own inspiration. 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.