Excerpt from The Rose DoorShe followed her brother to his home two rooms and a wife. Rebecca slept on the kitchen ¿oor. Her brother told her that she would not be able to get worth while wages till she could speak English.' With characteristic vigor she attacked the strange tongue, by pleadings, bribe and nagging she coerced her brother's wife into teaching her to read and write English, when the eacher, weary from a day of factory work fell asleep over the enforced lesson, Rebecca roused her by an insistent question. Each and every person who spoke to her was required to repeat his words till she could pronounce them precisely. At the factory, they would gladly have quarantined her, like any other plague, while' her brother and his wife felt that they were as veritable martyrs as any boiled in oil.It would have taken a meek-eyed Rebecca five years to learn the English acquired by this one in five months.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.