My Little Girl: A Novel
Walter Besant
Paperback
(Forgotten Books, Oct. 16, 2017)
Excerpt from My Little Girl: A NovelFontainebleau was a very quiet place, and a lonely. To north and east lay the great silent forest. To south only, it open ed out; and, standing in the road, one could see ten miles of land - ten miles, rather, of waving canes -before the ocean seemed to rise up like a wall and bar the prospect. Looking over the sailless sea for no ships ever came that way the misanthrope might derive a sense of freedom from feel ing, that, far and wide, no land interposed between the headland beneath him and the barren peaks of the Antarctic shores, far to the south; but the broad fields looked hot, thirsty, and parched. It was better to turn northwards, and, climbing over the wall which kept out the deer, and was a nightly gymnasium for the monkeys, dive into the glades and recesses of the forest.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.