Excerpt from Prince Perindo's Wish: A Fairy Romance for Youths and MaidensI now come to facts which I am very reluctant to mention, but as they must be mentioned sooner or later, I shall trust to the clemency of my youthful readers, and break to them as gently as I can the startling intelligence. That Ferindo was not surpassingly beautiful, or even marvellously clever. I am afraid he was almost plain, though there were some pleasing features in his face, his lessons, too, gave him almost as much trouble as if he had been an ordinary English boy, and instead of his being the idol of his parents and an adoring nation, his father, mother, and even his tutor, often found fault with him when his conduct was displeasing.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.