Excerpt from Elsie LindtnerFrom that moment I entered upon the accursed cult of my person which absorbed the rest of my childhood and all my first youth. I avoided the sun lest I should get freckles, I collected rain water for washing I slept in gloves, and though I adored sweets, I refrained from eating them on account of my teeth. I spent hours brushing my hair.One day when she came home she found the only big mirror in the house had been transferred from her father's room and hung in her own.I made myself quite ill with excitement, and the maid had to put me to bed. But later on, when the house was quiet, I got up and lit my lamp. I spent hours gazing at myself in the glass. There I sat till the sun rose.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.