Excerpt from Mildred McElroy, or a Tale of Stenographic LifeThe wasting sunlight of a June day was kissing the dark green vines which overhung a white cottage in The City of Elms when a golden haired girl came slowly up the ¿ower-bordered walk. She was thinking, for the large blue eyes were downcast. She seated herself on the lower step of the porch, where her mother was sew ing, and looked up at her sorrowfully.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.