Excerpt from Bessy Rane: A Novel How am I to help distressing myself? She rejoined, her hand resting quietly in both of his. It is all very well for you to be calm; a medical man meets these sad things every day. You cannot be expected to care. Can I not? He answered; and there was a touch of passionate emotion in the usually calm tone. If any effort or sacrifice of mine would bring back his health and life, I'd make it freely. Good-night, Bessy. 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.