Excerpt from A Daughter of This World MY dear alfred: As by this time you are aware that I have fled New York, decamped without adieu to friend or foe, you doubtless feel that to you at least I owe some explanation. You remember how I would mope about your studio those days in early June and watch you paint with minute touches the taper fingers of your Madon nas upon a background of gold, and you recall also the severe lectures you then read me on my indolence. 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.