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Excerpt from For Life and Love A drawing-room in a somber house in a gloomy London street - unmistakably the drawing-room of a lodging-house. A girl sitting before a piano - an Erard, hired, by the month - looking at the music on the desk before her and yawning undisguisedly, it being no breach of politeness to yawn when there is nobody but one's self in the room. The drawingroom is the drawing-room of the house No. 33 Carleton Street, and the girl is myself. My name is Allie Somers Scott, and I have come up to London for the purpose of having singing-lessons. I had a lesson this morning, and I have gone over it again and again till I am tired to death of words and music both. But I have set it up before me now with the laudable intention of going over it once more before it grows too dark to see. To that end I play the prelude through conscientiously, and then I left up my voice and sing - "He thinks I do not love him! He believed each word I said; And he sailed away in sorrow Ere the sun had left its bed. I'd have told the truth this morning, But the ship was out of sight. Oh, I wish these waves would bring him Where we parted yesternight! Oh, I wish - " 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.