Excerpt from Isabel, the Young Wife and the Old Love Captain PM was not what is usually understood by a great man, and yet he was not without heroic elements. He was not great in stature, for five feet six inches exceeded his extreme height; neither was he great in mind, for his in tellect bordered on the minute. His fortunes also were not great, for at no time of life was his income much more than a thousand pounds per annum. But he possessed the rare and en viable power of making his smaller companions have faith in the strength of his littleness, and his more influential neighbors respect his inferiority. 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.