Excerpt from The Mosaic-Worker's Daughter, Vol. 1 of 3: A NovelSO much the worse for the Roman girls, and for both Roman and English gentle men, replied Helen. But at the same time, so much the better for us English girls. You have not an idea what a sensa tion you yourself will produce next week, when you come ¿oating into a crowd of young dukes and princes, with your bright locks and the roses and lilies Of your cheeks. Do you know that the young Romans are wild about complexions like yours P As for me, with my dark face and dark eyes and dark hair, they think me no better than one of their own inane and ignorant sisters.Really i) asked her cousin. If this is not one of your favourite exaggerations, Helen, it only proves the stupidity of your friends the dukes and the princes.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.