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Excerpt from Letters of Susan Hale She was the best of company, and we who sat on her piazza at Matunuck, listening to her brilliant conversation on men, books and travel, or to her inimitable stories; and others who had the good for tune to travel with her, all bear witness to never having spent a dull hour in her company. It was a liberal education to be with her, for she always inspired the young people about her to care for the best things. She read a great deal, and in addition to a fine library of old books, she kept up with the best new ones, and her tables were always liberally strewn with current literature in English, French, Italian and German - all of which she read in the original, being a fine linguist, and discussed in a most dis cerning and appreciative way. 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.