Author: Sarah Doudney

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-12-19

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780484097482

Excerpt from Under Gray Walls I hasten homewards, still sobbing, for this is my first glimpse of a real sorrow, and I take it to heart as if it were my own. One or two persons look com passionately at my tearful face, but I hurry on unheed ing, and turn down into our narrow street. Here there is a perpetual dusk, for the tall gloomy houses shut out the sunlight, and the mouldering Old walls wear the saddest gray tints. I enter our shop-door, flanked with piles of dingy drab and brown books, and overturning a basketful of dusty pamphlets, rush on into the little sitting-room. But then I stop short, for a great surprise awaits me. My father is in his accustomed chair by the fire, and a man in a red coat sits by his Side. I cannot see the stranger's face distinctly, for his back is turned towards the light, but his hand rests upon my father's shoulder, and he speaks in a low voice. At the Sight of me, Aunt Esther calls out tremulously, Here's little Bessie! Come and Speak to your brother Jack, my dear. I didn't know I had a brother, I respond, in utter bewilderment. 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.