Excerpt from Marion Lester: Or the Mother's MistakeUpon the literary sea, already teeming with ten thousand lights, we launch our fragile bark. Though simple the offering, it is presented with a sincere desire for good.The object and bearing of this work we leave the reader to understand from its perusal.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.