Excerpt from King's Cope, Vol. 1 of 3: A Novel A little girl, some two years younger than the boy, was kneeling on the root of the tree just where it projected from the bank, and making herself a nosegay of forget-me-nots. Even in the cool nook which the children had selected, with the water gliding beneath their feet, and the thick branches meeting overhead, the heat was oppressive. Hugh! Your line! Exclaimed the little girl, suddenly raising her large hazel eyes from her flowers. 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.