Excerpt from The Spitfire, Vol. 3 of 3: A Tale of the Sea It sounds strangely in my ears, the re quest that I should marry your father, and you yourself are a mother you might call me your child's grandmother; and that, said Laura, archly, would make me look a young and inte resting bride. Although, my dear Laura, that might sound strangely, as you say, divest it of all imagination, and the difference is really nothing very alarming. My father married when he was only twenty, and, at this moment, I am not yet that, age you are nineteen - so that all the immense difference is only twenty years. 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.