Excerpt from Felicity Crofton<br><br>He was truthfully able to confess that they had come too fast for him to judge. In any case he was too blinded by the beauty Of the girl to judge of anything for the moment but that particular fact.<br><br>Veronica was lovely, just as the day was lovely, with its white virginity and its sparkling robe backed by the blue sky. He did not put it to himself like that: he merely formulated the thought that here was the prettiest girl he had ever seen.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.