Excerpt from The Splendid Chance Increasingly Katherine had felt an utterly needless desire to put herself right in his eyes, to prove to him that she was not a young person of eternal stiffness and to paint out the memory of the sentimental creature he must be seeing in her. But one cannot walk up to an all-but-total stranger and say, Let me tell you, I am not engaged to that young man! You beheld no Romeo and - Juliet parting, but an act of charity, abused. Now, for goodness' sake, don't let me catch you twinkling at me any more! 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.