Excerpt from The Silver Bells: An AllegoryTwo children were standing on the grass m front of a dwelling-place, a girl and a boy. The fair ¿owing hair of the elder glittered like gold in the sun, and rippled in tiny waves over her shoulders, as the soft wind lifted it up and let it fall again. Upright and graceful she was, with face as bright as the morning, and which looked as if the storms would not disturb it much, if they should come. Her brother, about a year younger, looked a clever thoughtful boy, with a wistful expression in his blue eyes, and delicately-shaped lips. They were talking and laughing together, as merry as the birds around them.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.