Mine Is Thine, Vol. 2 of 3

Book excerpt: Excerpt from Mine Is Thine, Vol. 2 of 3: A Novel The few people whom she knew at Caden abbia were impressed with this. It showed, they said, such freshness, simplicity, and soul for here was a lady, ordinarily involved in the turmoil of the great world of fashion, retiring without regret from its seductions, at the call of duty, and finding more than consolation in the sweet teachings of the beautiful and the sublime. All this factitious enthusiasm was focussed upon Esme, into whose confidence and affections it was her design to penetrate and since it appeared that freshness, simplicity, and soul would be the proper wear under the circumstances, she thus masqueraded accord ingly. 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.