Author: Edwin Lassetter Bynner

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-09-17

Total Pages: 518

ISBN-13: 9781528578417

Excerpt from Zachary Phips Mrs. Phips, born Rebecca Dimely, was a middle aged woman, with an air of energy befitting one who did her own housework without the aid of slave or servant. Constant drudgery left her small leisure for the cultivation of other faculties than those called into exercise by her narrow round of duties, a fact not to be lost sight of in any summary of her faults and merits as an individual. To care for her household, do her duty as a neighbor, and maintain her good and regular standing as a member of the church hard by in Methodist Alley, this was her aim in life, and who shall say it was not a worthy and adequate one judged from any standpoint? If in the govern ment of her step-children she stretched certain se vere old maxims as far as they could well go, it was all done, be sure, under the guidance of an active regulating conscience, and Mrs. Rebecca would have answered a call to judgment at any moment with as little misgiving as any misguided zealot who ever died at martyr's stake. 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.