Excerpt from A Life for a Life: A Novel<br><br>Several people, I noticed, looked at them and smiled; and one lady whispered something about poor clergy man's daughter and Sir William Treherne.<br><br>I felt hot to my very temples. Oh, if we were all in Paradise, or a nunnery, or some place where there was neither thinking nor making of marriages!<br><br>I determined to catch Lisa when the waltz was done. She waltzes well, even gracefully, for a tall woman - but I wished, I wished - my wish was cut short by a collision which made me start up with an idea of rushing to the rescue; however, the next moment Treherne and she had recovered their balance and were spinning on again. Of course I sat down immediately.<br><br>But my looks must be terrible tell-tales, since some one behind me said, as plain as if in answer to my thoughts, Pray be satisfied; the lady could not have been in the least hurt.<br><br>I was surprised; for, though the voice was polite, even~ kind, people do not, at least in our country society, address a lady without an introduction. I answered civilly, of course, but it must have been with some stiffness of man ner, for the gentleman said.<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.