Excerpt from A Necessity of Life, and Other Stories Arrived in the next room, Lady Flora burst into a ripple of frank laughter. You see what one may come to in one's old age she mocked. 'grow maudlin over a statue. Heavens, I hope I may die before that.' I can't imagine you doing it, ' he retorted with a smile. 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.