Margaret's Mead (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Margaret's Mead As the train slowed in to the little country station Marion drew a long breath of relief. The corner seats were occupied by clamorous children but she looked between and past their bobbing heads for a familiar face on the platform. She caught a slight, graceful figure in well-made tweeds with a keen, expectant eye on the carriages. Her heart contracted to a queer thrill of mingled pain, affection, and pride. "Lottie!" she murmured to herself, and stepped eagerly out of the train. Lottie saw her on the instant, turned to her with gray-green eyes - by courtesy called hazel - a-dance with excitement and the swift colour glancing in her thin clear cheeks like flame. "Of course I came for you. Did you expect to find me in bed? Bill is an old worrier! Yes, I always call him Bill now because he hates it so." She turned to a porter: "Could you take out the case, Mr. Gray? Mr. Napier can't leave the horse. The trunk can come out by milk cart. 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.