Excerpt from Horatio Howard Brenton, Vol. 3 of 3: A Naval Novel It is well to live a perfect life, full of light and shade, complete in all its phases; and I do not complain that mine has had its great sorrows, as well as its great joys - its hours of intense anxiety, as well as moments of deep calm and happiness. As I grew older, the excitements of my life grew more vivid, and its incidents more serious; and the only reason which prevented me from rejoicing that this was so, resulted from my mother's peculiar temperament, or, rather, peculiar state of health. 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.

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