Little Gervaise

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Excerpt from Little Gervaise: And Other Stories She was called Gervaise Lecourt, and, as her name tells you, she was French. She was young, pitifully young, slight of form, transparently fair of skin, with blue eyes, and golden hair. Eleven years had gone over her sunny head, but in size she was not larger than a child of seven. Kith and kin she had none - to her knowledge. Rumor in the circus which made her world said that she had been sold by her parents for thirty francs, sometimes rumor put it that she had been stolen from her parents without any consideration of money. If that was so, they had very little chance of tracing her, for she was described in the bills as "the little English Equestrienne, " under the name of Maude Carrington. Ever since she could remember she had been Maude Carrington in the bills which announced the details of the performance given in the circus, and equally long she had been Gervaise in private life. Most of the people by whom she was surrounded had no knowledge of her name of Lecourt: they called her "la petite, " or "petite Gervaise, " and sometimes the "little Englishwoman", but Gervaise knew no word of English, excepting her fancy name of Maude. How shall I describe to you what a life it was? Hard, yes, cruel, no, for, as a rule, French people are not cruel to children. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.