Excerpt from The Young Diana: An Experiment of the Future Opinion. Mrs. James Polydore May considered her worser half as something of a wayward and peevish child, and he in turn looked upon her as a useful domestic female - perfectly simme and natural, he was wont to say, a statement which, if true, would have been vastly convenient to him as he could then have deceived her more easily. But deeper than ever plummet sounded was the simplicity where with Mrs. James Polydore May was endowed, and the natural way in which she managed to secure her own comfort, convenience and ease while assum ing to be the most guileless and unselfish of women; indeed there were times when she was fairly aston ished at herself for having arranged things so clev erly, as she expressed it. Whenever a woman of her type admits to having arranged things clever ly you may be sure that the most astute lawyer alive could never surpass her in the height or the depth of duplicity. 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.