Excerpt from Confessions of a Decanter Just at that instant-the bright eyes of the young wife were raised to the shelf where I was glittering. Oh dear, what beautiful decanters, how very elegantly ornamented! She exclaimed. 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.

Clara Lucas Balfour nee Liddell (1808- 1878) was a British novelist and temperance activist. She educated herself by reading extensively. Temperance, social justice, and feminism were important themes in her writing and speaking. These themes influenced her reading of scripture. Balfour wrote over seventy works on temperance over a forty-year period. Her works include: Women of Scripture (1847), Working Women of the Last Half Century: The Lessons of Their Lives (1854), The Confessions of a Decanter (1862), The Bible Patterns of a Good Woman (1867) and Women Worth Emulating (1877).

I rambled through the streets for some hours, revolving such thoughts as pressed upon me involuntarily by all I saw. The same little grey homunculus that filled my "prince's mixture" years before, stood behind the counter at Lundy Foot's, weighing out rappee and high toast, just as I last saw him. The fat college porter, that I used to mistake in my school-boy days for the Provost, God forgive me!