Excerpt from Madcap Violet: A Novel There was a great silence in the school-room. A young girl of sixteen or seventeen, tall and strikingly handsome in figure, with abundant masses of raven-black hair, dark eyes under dark er eyelashes, and proud and well - cut lips, walked up to the school mistress's table. There was scarcely any thing of malice or miss chief visible in the bold carelessness of her face. The school-mistress looked up from some accounts she had been studying. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.

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Excerpt from Madcap Violet, Vol. 3 of 3 Perhaps she did not quite know how it had all come about; how, in the midst of the trivialities of ordinary life, and the distractions of a holiday-trip, this tragic doom had overtaken her with swift, inevitable strides; but captive, as she was, and not a little bewildered by that sore aching of the heart, she nerved herself at this moment to act and think with promptitude and decision. And indeed, although there was much of impulsive romanticism in the girl, there was a good deal of plain common sense too; and she had a keen sense of honour. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.

Excerpt from Madcap Violet, Vol. 1 of 3 There was a great silence in the schoolroom. A young girl of sixteen or seventeen, tall and strikingly handsome in figure, with abundant masses of raven-black hair, dark eyes under darker eyelashes, and proud and well-cut lips, walked up to the schoolmistress's table. There was scarcely anything of malice or mischief visible in the bold carelessness of her face. The schoolmistress looked up from some accounts she had been studying. "Well, Miss North?" she said, with marked surprise. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.

Excerpt from Madcap Violet, Vol. 2 of 3 The pronunciation of the word allegro is not a matter of very grave moment. A man may make a mistake about it and nevertheless be a good Christian and a loyal subject. All the same it was this trifling affair of a wrong accent that suddenly and unexpectedly changed the whole course of Miss Violet North's life. The girl had an impatience of pretence of all kinds which she carried to an extreme. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.

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