Excerpt from Stolen WatersYou who never have loved - you who never were tried, Lay this volume, without a perusal, aside!Should you read it, you'd find much to shock preconceivedIdeas of what should and what should not be.You would find no perfection of character here, Only weak human nature - the hopes and the fearsOf a heart, if undisciplined, loving and true, Temptations resisted, and yielded unto, And the tale of a love far beyond estimation, All potent, in doubt or in realization.I claim for my heroine nothing! exceptHer humanity. Yet from the reader expectThe remembrance that this is a Journal, whereinShe confides all her secrets, some which would have beenMost carefully, jealously guarded, 'tis plain, From the world. For my hero your honor I claim.For my work, ask that your criticism be mild, Recollecting, in authorship, I'm but a child.Sev'ral similar cases to this comeUnder my observation, when there has been doneBy the world much injustice to those who have provedIn the end, although human, both earnest and true, Three things it has been my endeavor to show, 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.