The Robertses on Their Travels, Vol. 2 of 3 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Robertses on Their Travels, Vol. 2 of 3Her to look out upon the lovely face of nature, to taste it. Had poor Bertha suffered less, she would probably have borne with less philosophy the annoyance of being associated with people to whom, with all her gentleness, she found it was quite impossible to attach herself. But the fearful agony which every thought turned toward her Irish home was sure to bring back with it, and the horrible dread which occasionally occurred to her, that it was possible that her father might command her return, for the purpose of placing her again under the care of her deeply suspected governess, made her shrink from every thought of complaining of her present quarters, or of doing any thing that might suggest the idea of recalling her. Deep sorrow, or indeed vehement emotion of any kind, developes the faculties and the fee] ings at Bertha's age with wonderful rapidity and could the mother, so suddenly and mysteriously snatched away from her, have been permitted to look back upon her as she was now, she could hardly have recognised the playful, thoughtless creature she had left, in the deeply meditative eye, and the calm and steadfast composure of.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.