Excerpt from Nadine, Vol. 1 of 2: The Study of a Woman I am tempted also, at the risk of provoking your gentle raillery, to inflict upon you one of my long letters, which you have been pleased to compare variously with the ring of cracked china, the quaint, precise har monies of the early Italian composers, and the ponderous if polished productions of the last century essayists. But pardon me for remarking that I-prefer incurring the imputation of Johnsonian pomposity to that of indulging in the Slipshod English and slangy phraseology which marks the epis tolary style of the 'young bloods' of the present age. 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.