Excerpt from A Blaze of Glory<br><br>IN a little room, somewhat shabby and rather meanly furnished, a young girl stood looking round on its well-worn and tediously familiar features with great solemn eyes filled with utter distaste and dis satisfaction.<br><br>She was very young, this girl, a Slight slip of a creature, not pretty, and yet with something out Of the common Shining from behind her solemn eyes. She had lovely hair, too, masses of rich, deep-brown hair, fine in texture, setting well about the low, broad forehead, about the little pink-tipped ears, and lying in enviable waves at the nape Of the long and slender neck. For the rest her complexion was negative, her nose nondescript, though inclining to length, her mouth tending to sadness, and her figure decidedly undefined. Not a pretty girl, and yet one in whom there were possibilities Of life quite out of line with the meagre little room in which She stood.<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.