Excerpt from Margaret Cecil: Or I Can, Because I Ought Fortunes of Margaret Cecil are intended to ex emplify the power of a strong will struggling against adverse circumstances. Even to the most highly favoured, life is always a battle with evil and sorrow, and it is well that in their youth they should learn how to endure bravely as Well as meekly. If Margaret Cecil should help one young reader to do her duty faithqy in that state to which it has pleased God to call her, it will not have been. 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.