All in a Garden Fair, the Simple Story of Three Boys and a Girl, Vol. 2 of 3 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from All in a Garden Fair, the Simple Story of Three Boys and a Girl, Vol. 2 of 3 All the young men of this country go to China or to London, ' said Hector, with the air of one who has made a new epigram, and thinks it ought to be remembered. And the girls all wait at home, I suppose said Claire with a Sigh. The statue Of Patience, my daughter, ' replied her father, 'has her lips closed, her eyes fixed, her head a little on one side, and one forefinger raised. She does not talk, she does not grumble; she waits.' 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.