Excerpt from Heart and Chart Densmore made the proper effect; but I found I didn't like being wept over as much as I had supposed I would. It seemed silly, somehow, to have such a fuss made over one not particularly remarkable girl - even if we were the Alysons who spell the name with one I and a y. Of course there is nothing that destroys a foolish idea like having some one in your family hold it. Mother plainly thought that Iphigenia's sacrifice was a frivolous affair compared with mine. For weeks she insisted on having extra meals served to me at all hours, whenever I happened to be off duty and at home. She declared that it was necessary to keep up my strength. And it was evident she felt what was, for so mild a being as herself, resentment toward father and Ned for allowing the desecration. 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.