Excerpt from The Woman He Desired When John Wilson was a little boy his mother used to tell him fairy tales. She was a young widow who had to work hard for a living and she had not much time for entertaining her small son. The story John loved best was about a princess. Being a fairy princess, of course she had golden hair, blue eyes, skin like alabaster, and hands no bigger than rose-leaves. She lived all alone in a ruined castle beset with dragons, and of course an ogre wanted to marry her - a dreadful creature like a ...
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Excerpt from The Woman He Desired When John Wilson was a little boy his mother used to tell him fairy tales. She was a young widow who had to work hard for a living and she had not much time for entertaining her small son. The story John loved best was about a princess. Being a fairy princess, of course she had golden hair, blue eyes, skin like alabaster, and hands no bigger than rose-leaves. She lived all alone in a ruined castle beset with dragons, and of course an ogre wanted to marry her - a dreadful creature like a toad, with a black 'face and long yellow teeth. The poor little princess spent most of her days in weeping because of the dragons and the ogre. Then be, John Wilson, aged five, came along, and in some mar velons manner rescued her. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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