Excerpt from The Home Life of Swinburne In fact, an uncomfortable feeling of shyness came over me at the idea of meeting Swinburne. It was not that I feared to experience any sort of mauvaise honte, for I had no lack of the self possession required by people unknown to fame on being presented to a celebrity. The fact was that at this juvenile period of my existence. 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.