Excerpt from Life of Frances Power Cobbe, Vol. 1 of 2 Whether my readers will think at the end of these volumes that such a Life as mine was worth recording I cannot foretell; but that it has been a Life worth Living I distinctly affirm; so well worth it, that though I entirely believe in a higher existence here after, both for myself and for those whose less happy lives on earth entitle them far more to expect it from eternal love and justice - I would gladly accept the permission to run my earthly race once more from beginning to end, taking sunshine and shade just as they have flickered over the long vista of my seventy years. Even the retrospect of my life in these volumes has been a pleasure; a chewing of the cud of memories. 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.