Excerpt from A Girl in Ten Thousand The speaker was a middle-aged woman. She was lying on a sofa in a shabby little parlor. The sofa was covered with horsehair, the room had a faded' paper, and faded chintz covered the shabby fumi ture. The woman's pleading words were emphasized by her tired eyes and worn face. She looked full at the young girl to whom she spoke. 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.