Excerpt from Melchior's Dream: Brothers of Pity, and Other Tales IT is always a memorable era in a mother's life when she introduces a daughter into society. Many things contribute to make it so; among which is the fact of the personal blessing to her self, in having been permitted to see the day to have been spared, that is, to watch over her child in infancy, and now to see her entering life upon her own account. 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.