Excerpt from The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield Out Of question, you were born in a merry hour, says Don Pedro to the blithesome heroine of Much Ado About Nothing. N O, sure, my lord, answers Beatrice. My mother cried but then there was a star danced, and under that was I born. 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.