Excerpt from From Shadow to Sunlight Oh, let me see the cavern. Do take me if the weather be fine enough, said a beautiful American girl, who with her father was visiting Europe, and had found her way to a Scotch country house, after tasting of the joys of the London season. Her father was a gentleman who had been in office in New York State, but had given up public life for the leisure which he loved to use for travel and reading. As in the case of most Americans who love literature, he had at his fingers' ends most of our great authors. Scott's novels had of course made him wish to see Scotland, and he had gladly accepted for himself and daughter an invitation given to him by. 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.