Excerpt from The Vicar of Wakefield, Vol. 1 of 2: A Tale Our fecond child a girl, I intended to call after her aunt. Grize 1: but my wife. Who, during the time or her pres, 1 nancy, had een reading romances, infil'ted upon hzr being; called Oi i1ia. In lefs than another-year 11 e nail a daughter again and now I was determined that Grizel lhonld be her -na1ne but a rich relation taking a fancy to Grand god nio ther, the girl 11 as, by her directions, called Sophia; fo that We had two romantic names in the family but I l'olernnly' proteli I had no hand in it. Mofes was our nest. 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.