Excerpt from Roland "Gentleheart" Roland liked it, too. He was a big boy now; nine years old - going on ten; straight as an arrow and well grown for his age, with very beautiful soft, dark eyes, and short, reddish brown hair that curled all over his head. These, with the kindly expression of his mouth and the fine healthy color in his cheeks, made Roland a very pretty boy, and the wide embroidered turned-over collars and cuffs which his papa liked him to wear gave the little fellow a very picturesque appearance. 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.