Excerpt from The Smuggler's Secret: A Romance With some such rhapsody as this I pressed the glove to my lips again, and then, startled by a sound, I turned and found myself face to face with Miss Duncan, who had come back for her glove. There it was, within an inch of my lips. The position was embarrassing. What was to be done? Could she take the glove with my kiss upon it, or should she turn her back on me, and leave the room in indignation? She took neither course, but she stood there With a deep blush on her face, and an unspeakable tenderness in the glance that met mine, and then She dropped her eyes, but still she stood there. It was a confession of love that I had not dared to hope for. 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.