Excerpt from The Cretan Refugees and Their American Helpers Crete is the largest and most important of the Isles of Greece. It is to them what Cuba is to the other West India islands. It is not so long as the State of Massa chusetts, and has only about half as many square miles of surface. But all Attica, you know, was only a tenth as large as Massachusetts, yet played a larger part in ancient history than the latter has as yet done in modern. 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.

Excerpt from The Refugee in America, Vol. 1 of 3: A Novel It may be considered, perhaps, rather as the consequence of his advantages, than as one of them, that he was not only the admired of all eyes, but also the desired of many hearts. Beautiful faces turned tenderly towards him from all sides; and, under such circumstances, to escape unscathed was impossible. It was not long before Mr. Gordon was seen dancing three quadrilles in one evening with the beautiful Miss Armitage. 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.

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