Excerpt from The Victoria Magazine, Vol. 32: November-April, 1879 The crown without the cross! To that I was not born. Happily the Spirit of a child is elastic as its tread, and will not break under one blow. At thirteen I began to feel as a woman, and often and often would I walk alone by the sea, making companions of the melancholy waves, in mournful envy of other girls of my age, whom I saw caressed and praised by a fond father, while I had none to cling to under heaven but the poor old grandmother, who rather reproved than encouraged my too demonstrative affection. She had lived through too much to feel in common with the young passionate heart that chafed under her very kindness, and hungered for other love than hers. 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.