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Excerpt from Sons of the Sword: A Romance of the Peninsular War
Then women must love ugliness. Yes, they must adore it passionately. Women'! What do I say? Ladies, great ladies, do you hear, have gone mad for the beam: yeux of the man you call - ugly! Bah! I do you too much honour. Little stupid! 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.