Excerpt from Adventures of a Doll: Compiled With the Hope of Affording Amusement and Instruction My possessor was a person of great taste, and gave to my elegant form every advantage which dress could bestow. A wreath of moss-rose buds encircled my head. I wore a transparent muslin frock, spotted with silver, over a pale blue sarcenet. Fine lace and pearls surrounded the bosom, and ornamented the sleeves. A string of pearls also hung round my neck, and decorated my arms. My stockings were of the finest silk; and my slippers blue, spotted with silver. 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.