Excerpt from The Young Step-Mother, Vol. 2 of 2: Or a Chronicle of Mistakes His minding no one but you is an Old story. I hope at least the exception continues.' I have avoided testing it. I want all my forces for a decisive battle. I never heard Of such a masterful imp, ' she continued, with much more exultation than anxiety, his sisters have no chance with him, he rules them like a young Turk. There's the pony! Sophy will let him have it as aright, and it is the work of my life to see that she is not defrauded Of her rides.' 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.