The Life and Amours of the Beautiful, Gay and Dashing Kate Percival

Chapter I

CHILDHOOD

I am about to do a bold thing. I am about to give to the world the particulars of a life fraught with incident and adventure. I am about to lift the veil from the most voluptuous scenes. I shall disguise nothing, conceal nothing, but shall relate everything that has happened to me just as it occurred. I am what is called a woman of pleasure, and have draine...