Excerpt from East and West: A Story of New-Born Ohio All this, I say, she knew from native impulse; but it was not very satisfactory, to have thus to construct for herself the picture of what was going on in the town. Least of all was it satisfactory that the news should have been given her by J ane Endicott. Sarah did not ask herself in what way she would have liked to have the news come, but she did know that it could not have come to her in a more disagreeable way. And at the very bottom of her heart, she had a provoked feel ing, that it was not the first time that Harry Curwen had treated her in this off-hand and take-for-granted way. 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.