Excerpt from Lilliesleaf, Vol. 1 of 3: Being a Concluding Series of Passages in the Life of Mrs. Margaret Maitland, of SunnysideAy, Aunt Margaret, said my niece Mary to me, as she rose from where she waspsitting by me, and went to get some work out of her little table, with a heavy sigh, ay, Aunt Margaret, these were but the troubles of our youth, and it is life we have come to now.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.