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Excerpt from The Major's Favourite a Novel
Some years ago I wrote a little story called Mignon's Secret. It was in tended to show the grown-up mind something of the intense bitterness of the sorrows of childhood, sorrows which to us may seem trivial, but which to the child's heart and brain are immeasur able in the depth of their intensity. My public have taken Mignon's Secret to their heart, and apparently mean to keep it there - judging from the steady demand to-day for one edition after an other - and among my most precious possessions is a book of Mr. Ruskin's inscribed by him To the author of Mignon's Secret. Two facts which tell me that my aim was reached and which reward me beyond price or words. 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.
