Excerpt from The Luck of the FairfaxesJohn Fairfax was a dreamer of dreams, hopelessly unpractical. But the fairy who had shaken the magic dust on his eyeballs in the cradle had endowed him also with the gift of charm. He was to be much loved and joyfully borne with from the cradle to the grave.If he had been brought up by his uncle, Peter Collier, his mother's brother, the severely practical training he would have received at the hands of that excellent business man might perhaps have done some little to mitigate the fairy's gift.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.