Phoebe

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Excerpt from Phoebe: Or the HospitalThe conversation lasted some time, and under her husband's way of looking on the subject, the poor anxious mother began to make up her mind, that if it could be proved really for her child's good, she would part with her, and commit her to the care of strangers. It is not necessary to explain all that passed, the doctor repeated his assurance to William Freeman, and it was settled at last, that on the following Monday Phoebe should be taken to the hospital. The town was six miles off but William Freeman did not think much of this distance, though with his little girl in his arms. It made him sad, indeed, to think, as he started on the journey, 'how slight her weight was, and how small a bur den and hindrance.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.