Linda

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Excerpt from Linda: Or the Young Pilot of Belle Creole There are few, among the many beautiful villages of New England, more romantic than that of Lancaster, Mass., where, at the breaking out of the War of 1812, dwelt the family of the late Col. John Whiting. Himself a man of high mental cultivation and great literary tastes, and described as "of a fine military figure and commanding height" - his children inherited both his personal and mental attractions, but none more largely than his youngest child, Caroline Lee Whiting, the subject of this sketch. Even at this time, a girl of ten or eleven years, she was at once distinguished among her school-mates by the remarkable genius she already displayed, and endeared to them by her winning manners, sweet disposition, and warmth of heart. Her compositions, sparkling with fancy, glowing with feeling, and mature in language, were thus early the admiration of her companions and the pride of the home circle, and not few were the auguries of the future novelist. 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.