Excerpt from Memories: Grave and GayIT has been a pleasure for me to recall, at the kind request of the Messrs. Harper Brothers, the memo ries of a lifetime, even though some sad thoughts have mingled with the happy ones. So many bright Shapes have risen out of the past at my bidding that the difficulty of selection has been great. Beloved faces seem to look out at me and say, Why did you leave me out? The ghosts of noble deeds, the memories of stirring scenes sweep softly by me, mur muring: Are we not worthy of mention P Indeed and indeed you are, bright Spirits of the past and Of the present also, but in my small mosaic all the precious stones would not fit.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.