Book excerpt: Excerpt from They Are Only Cousins, Vol. 2 of 3: A Novel You don't mean to say, Lena, continued Lucy, that you still have any doubt about that matter? Yes, but I do, dear. I know to what you allude; but you always seem to overlook the fact of Noel and Clare being cousins. 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.