Joanna Traill, Spinster (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Joanna Traill, Spinster "We love that we may learn to live, " Miss Traill said tremulously. "A man is a fool sometimes, a woman is one always!" Mrs. Crane wafted her airy cynicism towards her sister as gracefully as she would have thrown her a kiss. "One would think, Joanna, you had lived long enough to learn the fallacy of love." "Not from you, Sarah." Mrs. Crane laughed. "Oh! that is absurd. Marriage with me simply meant earning my living in the easiest way. I was twenty and penniless, under such circumstances one naturally falls in love. It is a different thing when one has an income and an establishment, and no need to marry at all." "You forget the affections, Sarah." "The affections? The fiddlesticks! 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.