Excerpt from The Invisible Enemy; Or the Mines of Wielitska, Vol. 2 of 4: A Polish Legendary Romance My mother's domestic introduced me into the drawing-room, where I seated my self, and began to reflect on my strange destiny. The hour at which my mother dined was not far off and I expected her every moment to make her appearance, with a sensation which it is almost Impossi ble to describe to you. The dinnerxhour, however, -passed away, and it grew dusk, butsmy mother never came. Her domes-1 tics, who were amusing themselves below, in the absence of their mistress, with drink ing' her wine and eating her provisions. 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.