Excerpt from Irene to the Rescue: The Story of an English Girl's Fight for the Right The girl looked at the boy scornfully. 'felicitate!' she corrected; 'and if you wish to talk English, pray talk it properly. Con gratulate is the word you ought to have used; though, if you had a spark Of sport in you, you would be ashamed to be beaten by a girl younger than yourself. But you French are no good at games, and never will be.' 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.