Excerpt from Social Strugglers: A Novel Peleg was brimming over with anecdotes from this period of his life. And he had to exercise a severe self-denial to refrain from lapsing into compromising reminiscence. He was too honestly American to sympathize with any effort to conceal his past, when that past was fully as honorable as that of the majority of his fellow-citizens. There were, indeed, moments when his newly acquired gentility affected him like a strait-jacket which he was aching to burst; and if it had not been for his three daugh ters (two of whom shared their mother's social ambition) he would have had himself interviewed by T/ze World on all the undesirable phases of his career. 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.