Excerpt from One's Womenkind: A Novel Have you ever tasted those pink-and-white things? Asked the six-year-old May, as her arm went round Gwenny and her big grey eyes shone with longing. No, replied the elder sister, sorrowfully mindful of the sweeping maternal ban on sweet-stuffs, though it was only almond-rock which was supposed to have last upset them; but the yellow-and-white are nicer. 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.