Excerpt from The Young Duke, Vol. 2 of 2 So the game is up! Truly, a most lame and impotent conclusion! And this, then, is the result of all my high fancies and indefinite aspirations l Verily, I am a very distinguished hero, and have not abused my unrivalled advantages in the least! What! Am I bitter on myself There will be enough to sing my praises, without myself joining in this chorus of congratulation. Oh! Fool, fool! Now I know what folly is. But barely fifteen months since, I stepped upon these shores, full of hope and full of pride; and now I leave them - how? Oh! My dishonoured fathers Even my posterity, which God grant I may not have, will look on my memory with hatred, and on hers with scorn! 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.