Excerpt from The Magic Wheel: A NovelMine was a curious childhood. For one thing I was alone. Brothers and sisters I had none, and I was, moreover, the child of a late mar riage. My father was a grand man, much de voted to sport, therefore, to please him, we lived in the country. My mother was delicate, very delicate, often suffering sharply, and, to please her, we practically eschewed society. N ow and again my father would give a little dinner at his club in the neighbouring county town, and now and again - very rare these oc casions were - my mother would have the rec tor and his wife to dinner. Still more rarely did my mother ever go out in return.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.