Choice Tales

Excerpt from Choice Tales: For the Improvement of Youth of Both Sexes Youth and innocence always are so: but innocence frequently vanishes with infancy, and loveliness flies away at the same period of time. The young lady was an orphan: and a beneficent fairy, whose name was Lidoriana, undertook to conduct her education. Maria did not know that she was a fairy; but she loved Lidoriana, as a friend, and honoured her as a mother. One day-Lidoriana gave Maria permission to amuse herself with her companions in a neighbouring meadow. They were resently, as is the custom with childern, running by the side of a rivulet, which was not deep, pursuing butterflies, and gathering flowers. 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.