Excerpt from The Book of My Lady: A Melange The following sketches are now, for the first time, collected in form. Several of them have, at various periods in a short life, found their way into print-in one magazine or another. They were written at long intervals - Upon occasional suggestions - and will be found to indicate some of the warmth of a mind and habit, sometimes careless of restraint, and not always to be controlled by has been permitted. 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.