Excerpt from Maud Atherton, Vol. 2 of 2 I shall at least have accomplished something if I save one child for a life of hopeful womanhood from one of hungry poverty and almost inevitable shame. This had been his first thought when he had promised the dying girl that her child should not be left friendless to fight the world alone; but apart from this motive, he had felt a kind of fantastic fondness for the child ever since she had Spoken to him on Westminster Bridge, and the thought that she might live to find existence as ...
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Excerpt from Maud Atherton, Vol. 2 of 2 I shall at least have accomplished something if I save one child for a life of hopeful womanhood from one of hungry poverty and almost inevitable shame. This had been his first thought when he had promised the dying girl that her child should not be left friendless to fight the world alone; but apart from this motive, he had felt a kind of fantastic fondness for the child ever since she had Spoken to him on Westminster Bridge, and the thought that she might live to find existence as dreary a thing as her mother had done, was unspeakably painful to him. Her mother's short life was heavy with wrong and misery, he said to himself, I will save you, little Raven, from such a fate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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