Excerpt from Three Fair Maids, or the Burkes of DerrymoreOur dear father would never have permitted it, Y said mother, looking at Elizabeth in a scared way.Perhaps we should never have needed it if he had lived, Elizabeth replied. He might have foreseen the storm that was coming, and taken the little money he possessed out Of the unstable land. But now his pro vision for us has vanished, and what are we to do? You would not have us be governesses?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.