Excerpt from Singularly Deluded: A Romance Mrs. Leslie Somers was a case in point. Her parents were rich and in a good position. She had several brothers and sisters, to whom she was devotedly attached. All her intimate friends were refined and cultivated people, and her girl hood had been o'ne unbroken chain of happy events, such as form part of the every-day life of a young English gentlewoman with ample means at her command, and health and strength to eu joy them the crowning event in her case being her marriage at eighteen with a man ten years older than herself, but in every respect apparently a suitable husband for her. 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.