Excerpt from Maurice Elvington, or One Out of Suits With Fortune, Vol. 3 of 3: An AutobiographyIt followed, as a matter of course, that Clarissa's abnegation of self was not altogether to the taste of the ignorant people about us. They had hung back themselves, and, not having the least idea that she considered herself under an obligation to the person on a sick - bed, could not understand why any one should feel more than ordinary concern in the recovery of a stranger. Indeed they were only too ready at all times to impute a bad mo tive as the principle of any action they could not comprehend, and in this case made their minds up that Clarissa's humanity admitted of no favourable interpretation. My landlady, for instance, was.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.