Excerpt from The Romance of a Letter Why was Fate so cruel as to rob me of my father before I learned to know him? Had been her lament for the last three years. That she had not really known him She first realized when the news of his death reached her. And now it was not only his loss that She mourned, but the years which had parted them. 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.