Excerpt from The Daughter of a Stoic When Marion James had drunk from the cup of life her full portion of poverty and illness and anguish of spirit, she died, leaving to the half-brother with whom she had quarrelled on her marriage the doubt fully desirable legacy of her little daughter. She wrote him on her death-bed a letter which was chiefly remarkable for the things it did not say. He had not heard from her for twelve years. 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.