Author: Amanda M. Douglas

Publisher:

Published: 2016-06-20

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13: 9781332608607

Excerpt from Lost in a Great City "But I am so afraid, Maggie! The horses are so large, and those great wagons and all the people! Oh, I can't, I can't!" "Catch tight hold of my dress, so. And don't you remember that I told you I was to be your mamma now?" "You are not my mamma, Maggie!" and the child threw back her head with a proud, indignant gesture, as if some right of birth asserted itself unconsciously. "You are my own dear mamma's nurse-maid, and I cannot call you anything but just Maggie. My mamma is in heaven, and I can never have another one." As she stood there on one of the down-town corners of Broadway, she made a noticeable picture. A rarely beautiful child of seven years, though small for her age, shaped with exquisite symmetry, slender, yet not thin, with a certain supple gracefulness characterizing every movement, and not less remarkable in her present pose. The complexion was of a peculiar pearly tint; her hair pale golden, abundant, and waving over her shoulders a rippling mass. 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.