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Excerpt from Instructive Tales, for Young Persons, Intended to Amuse and Inform the Youthful Mind, Comprising Lascelles, or the Young Soldier: Leland, or the Wanderings of Youthful Romance In a small but neat cottage border ing upon this wood, lived a young widow, of interesting and prepossess ing appearance; and whose manners indicated her previous acquaintance with a higher sphere, than that she at present, with resignation indeed, but not with entire self-satisfaction, was seen to occupy. She had an only son, a boy entering upon his fifteenth year, but of a size and stature that to a stranger would have indicated him to be several years older; and with personal recommendations be sides, which he appeared to have inherited from his mother, superior. 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.