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Excerpt from Dr. Thorne's Idea: Originally Published as "Gloria Victis" On Staten Island, in the garden before a modest cottage, a plump, sunburnt little girl was sitting among the flowers. Her companion, a doll of uncertain character, whose champagne tresses and gaudy attire betokened a career of Gallic levity, or, at the very best, a purely fashionable existence, appeared strikingly out of harmony with her humble surroundings. This pretentious effigy, face down across her guardian's lap, was about to receive the punishment we associate with that attitude, when a voice from the road caused the uplifted hand to pause in its descent. A horse and buggy had stopped before the gate, and the driver repeated his question. "Does Mrs. Zabarelli live here?" "Yes, sir, but she's not at home." "You expect her soon, don't you?" "Yes, sir, I guess so. At one o'clock." 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.