Excerpt from Christ's Folk in the Apennine: Reminiscences of Her Friends Among the Tuscan Peasantry For it is one of the pleasantest features inthe tenor of these annals to have our friends coming to see us again at their different ages, and in their added dignities of posses sion or position. The story with which I begin is, however, a little different from the others, having been written for me by Francesca in consequence of my complaint that the Story of Ida was too sad, and conceded too much to the modern feeling of the British public that people who are quite good have nothing to do but to die. The story of Polissena may perhaps never reach the same place in the reader's heart; but it is in the depth-of it far more bravely and widely exemplary. 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.