Excerpt from Wooed and Married: A Novel After all, there is an odd sort of pathos, a parabolic excel lence in these nursery stories. The cobwebs are nearer earth, to be sure; young brains get entangled in them; the old brooms will not sweep clean; the fine filmy threads intersect everything - to some eyes even the sky itself is not clear. If Dymphna Elliott could have had her way there would be nothing unpleasant in life - sunshine without clouds, roses without thorns, cobwebs nowhere. This is how she would arrange matters: plenty of loving-kindness, no stint of sym pathy, a new system of largesse and almsgiving. 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.