Excerpt from Sisters Cherry strickland came in the door Of the Strick-v land house, and Shut it behind her, and stood so, with her hands behind her on the knob, and her slender body leaning forward, and her breath rising and falling on deep, ecstatic breaths. It was May in California, she was just eighteen, and for twenty-one minutes she had been engaged to be married. She hardly knew why, after that last farewell to Martin, she had run so swiftly up the path, and why she had flashed into the house, and Closed the door with such noiseless haste. There was nothing to run forl But it was as if She feared that the joy within her might escape into the moonlight night that was so perfumed with lilacs and the scent Of wet woods. In this new happiness of hers a fear was already mingled, a sweet fear, truly, and a delicious fear, but She had never feared anything before in her life. She was afraid now that it was all too wonderful to be true, that she would awaken in the morning to find it only a dream, that she would somehow fall short Of Martin's ideal - somehow fail him - somehow turn all this magic Of moonshine and kisses into ashes and heartbreak. 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.