Excerpt from The Argosy, Vol. 45: January to June, 1888 Charles strange, have called this my own story, and 7 shall, myself, tell a portion of it to the reader 5 not all. May was quickly passing. The drawing-room window Of White Littleham Rectory stood Open to the sunshine and the summer air for the years of warm springs and long summers had not then left the land. The Incumbent of the parish of White Littleham, in Hampshire, was the Reverend Eustace Strange. On a. Sofa, near the window, lay his wife, in her white dress and yellow Silk shawl. A young and lovely lady, with a sweet countenance; her eyes the colour of blue-bells, her face growing more transparent day by day, her cheeks too Often a fatal hectic altogether looking so delicately fragile that the Rector must surely be blind not to suspect the truth. S/ze suspected it. Nay, She no longer suspected; she knew. Perhaps it was that he would not do so. 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.