Excerpt from The Three Perils of Woman, or Love, Leasing, and Jealousy, Vol. 1 of 2: A Series of Domestic Scottish Tales Gatty drew on her worsted stockings, as white as the lamb from whose back they had been originally shorn, flung her snowy vailover her youthful and sylph like form, and went away, as it were mechanically, to an old settee that stood in a corner, where she had been accustomed for a number of years to kneel every morning and say her prayers. But that morning Agatha stood still with apparent hesitation for a considerable space, and did not kneel as she was wont. I cannot pray any to-day, said Gatty, and returned sobbing, while the tears dropped from her e es. 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.