Excerpt from A Woman at Bay: Una Donna Y childhood was free and healthy. It would be useless to attempt to live it over again to try to make it sparkle as Of old before my imagination. I can see the child that was I at six years Of age, at ten, but as though I had dreamed her. A lovely dream which the faintest recall to the present instantly dispels. It is like music, too, perhaps, a delicate, Vibrant harmony; and like a great enfolding light; and there is the joy, still vivid, Of remembering it. 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.