Excerpt from Confession, or the Blind Heart: A Domestic Story<br><br>TO readers, therefore, who are simply in search Of incident, and that sort Of interest which appeals to the blood rather than the brain, it may be well, by way Of caution, and to prevent unreasonable expectation, to say that this Confession of the Blind Heart offers very little encouragement. It partakes of few of the features of that school of Dumas, and Reynolds, and Ainsworth, in which the 'heart is made to roar out its hopes or sufferings, under incessant provocation and stimuli. It has its disastrous chances but with few Of those moving accidents by flood and field - those hair-breadth 'scapes i' the immi nent deadly breach - which so richly garnish in general the tales of these popular writers.<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.