Excerpt from Always Happy: Or, Anecdotes of Felix and His Sister Serena; A Tale, Written for Her Children, by a Mother Felix had many good qualities, but he had also many faults; he was sometimes passionate, sometimes idle, sometimes self-conceited. Of these faults he knew he could cure himself, for his father had told him so: and, though he was not remarkably clever, he had sense enough to resolve to conquer his faults. In the end, as might be expected, he succeeded: and you will hear how, by his constant endeavors, he grew up to be almost as good a man as his father. 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.