Excerpt from Love of SistersShe had been the gayest of the gay when John Featherstonehaugh had first been her lover. They had met at a Castle ball, and had danced themselves, she into friendship, he into love, that very first night. She was then Columba o'kelly, an orphan girl living with her two aunts in a stately impoverishment in the wilds of Connaught, and Heaven knows what pinching and scraping there had been before that Dublin season gave the young girl her chance to be seen.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.