Excerpt from The Land of the Sun: Vistas Mexicanas The general pulled his grey moustaches meditatively for a moment before he answered. Well, my dear, he said, I do not suppose another young woman will add much to my trouble; and if you and Dorothea think she might be of use in the manner indicated, let us by all means take her along. If she will consent to go, which I very much doubt, re marked Mrs. Langdon. And really I cannot say that I enjoy the idea of adding a girl like Violet Graham, with not an idea beyond social amusement, to our party. If we go to Mexico, I, for one, want to see the country in a satisfactory manner; and she will be bored to death and bore us to death in the process. 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.