Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Tracts for Missionary Use, Vol. 5
One fine summer evening, two young women were walking together in a small country village. The elder of the two was named Alice Austin: she had not long left the Parochial School, and, by the kind recommendation of the rector's wife, had obtained a situation as under-nurse in the family of a Mr. And Mrs. Stanley, who lived at a place called Beech Grove, about twelve miles from the village where Alice was born. She was to go to her place the next day, and had been taking a walk, for the last time, with an old schoolfellow, Eliza Williams. The friends had, of course, much to talk about, on this, their last evening of being together; and a part of their conversation shall now be related. 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.