Father's Coming Home: A Tale
Emily Steele Elliott
Paperback
(Forgotten Books, Feb. 1, 2018)
Excerpt from Father's Coming Home: A TaleChristie got on bravely in India. Officers and comrades all had a good word for him, and only one trial clouded his path. After about six years, and when little Nannie was yet a baby, it became evident that Nannie's mother was failing in health, and the doctors said that nothing but her own native air could save her life. And then came the hardest parting of all. Oh, it was very hard to say good-bye to her husband, to stand on the ship with a baby in her arms, and a little one by her side, and to see the pathway Of water which separated him from her grow wider and wider, until Hugh, and his boat, and land itself, were lost to her sight. Little Jamie cried sorely that night in the thronged cabin when no father came to kiss him before he went off to sleep; and Mary's tears fell so fast over her little Nannie, that her pillow was quite wet before sleep visited her eyelids.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.