Excerpt from My Lady: A Story of Long Ago You will guess, ere you have read many of these pages, that my Lady, and indeed her cousin Philippe, the present Marquis de saint-rambert, are the two beings that lie nearest my heart. My darling says that I must add a third person to this number, holding that Iam bound in honor to love all whom she loves; but it is a hard lesson for my jealous old heart to learn to love so formidable a rival, especially as I am unable so soon to forget the stir and turmoil brought into our quiet midst by this same young per son's handsome countenance. 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.