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Excerpt from Mistress Beatrice Cope, or Passages in the Life of a Jacobite's Daughter, Vol. 1 of 2
It is painted upon a very dark and shadowy background, from which the face and some soft folds of white drapery stand out with a weird unearthly light. The picture must be a good one, if only for the intensity of expression which the painter has thrown into the youthful face, and the vivid, almost transparent brightness of its pallor. The figure seems to be pausing at the head of a flight of stone stairs, one foot advanced to descend; one delicate hand draws a floating scarf of muslin close. 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.
