Excerpt from Ring and Coronet, Vol. 2 of 3: A Story of Circus Life IT is the evening of that, to her, all-eventful Sunday when Nina became conscious of possessing a heart, at the very moment of losing it again for ever, and the young girl sits before her little casement window gazing pensively at the starlit sky. The nights are cold now, so she has thrown her shawl carelessly round her; and, as she watches the pale new moon, whose silver crescent rises just above the trees, and listens to the soft murmuring lament the falling leaves are whispering to the chilly night wind that bears them gently to the earth. 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.