Excerpt from Temptation and Atonement, and Other Tales, Vol. 3 of 3Last Spring I screwed my courage to the sticking-place, resolved that, before the season was over, a portion at least of the fruits of my sweet and bitter experience should be committed to paper, that this century of seemings might bequeath to posterity one plain, unvarnished, daguerreotyped portrait of its features, and, shivering under the in¿u ence of a bitter February, and severe fit of the in¿uenza, which left me phthisicky, mo rose, and moral, Opened with suitable dignity the ream of foolscap with which Houghton had armed me for my first literary campaign.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.