Excerpt from The Argosy, Vol. 24: July to December, 1877 UR young artist, Alice Kerr, with Grace Pyne as her attendant, and Martin acting as courier, started for North Devon in a very different style from that in which she had commenced her journey to London, The journey itself was no less a contrast. She had no adventures, and met with no misfortunes, and her companions afforded her very little amusement. It had been her private wish to have Lucy Pyne instead of Grace, but this could not be gratified; and Grace, though attentive and respectful, was too silent and thought ful to be an interesting companion. Indeed, Alice held to her first opinion, that however good and industrious she might be, there was nothing interesting about her at all. Her dress was too respectable, her complexion too colourless, to be of the least use in a picture; and as for any romance being connected with one so demure and grave, it was simply absurd to think of it. The depths of tenderness and suffering that lay hidden beneath that plain exterior, Alice had not skill to discover. She little dreamed that all she had ever felt, or thought she felt, all her poetical theories on woman's love and patience under disheartening circumstances, were cold, indeed, com pared with poor Grace's experience Of the reality. 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.