Excerpt from Approaches the Poor Scholar's Quest of a Mecca; A Novel in Three Volumes, Vol. 3 of 3 He walked with his mother about the garden. There was something of desertion about it when he remembered the picture of the children playing there. His mother had spoken to him almost for the first time about her own past life, and described how she had been brought up almost without playmates, and if almost without pleasures, yet almost without cares. 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.