Excerpt from A Fatal Silence, Vol. 2 of 3 'a vulgar, presuming, underbred little body, who talks to me as if i'were her equal, ' she exclaimed. 'who can expect these ignorant children to improve under her auspices? They have lost half that Miss Stafford taught them already. Ah, what short-sighted fools they were to drive that girl away, and how glad I am that Hal Rushton had the wisdom to see what a pearl had been cast amongst swine' 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.