Excerpt from The Adventures of Philip on His Way Through the World: Showing Who Robbed Him, Who Helped Him, and Who Passed Him By When the Shabby Genteel Story was first reprinted with other Stories and Sketches by Mr. Thackeray, collected together under the title of Miscellanies, the following note was appended to it: It was my intention to complete the little story, of which only the first part is here written. Perhaps novel-readers will understand, even from the above chapters, what was to ensue. Caroline was to be disowned and deserted by her Wicked husband: that abandoned man was to marry somebody else: hence. 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.