Excerpt from Minna: A Novel From the Danish of Karl Gjellerup As I perused a copy of Thomas Moore's "Irish Melodies," bequeathed to me, with some more favourite books (English and German classics), by my late friend Harold Fenger, I found this "exquisite inscription" strongly underlined with pencil. So I thought it fit to place it as a motto at the head of these recollections of his love-story, the manuscript of which he confided to my care before he died in London. His death, I am half-happy, half-sorry to say, took place not many years after he had lost his beloved Minna. Indeed the fear which she mentioned in her letter to Stephensen, that Fenger's chest was not strong, proved to be less unfounded than he himself supposed. It was also thought probable by his doctor that the heart-wound, of which these pages tell, added fuel to the complaint from which he was already suffering. 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.