Excerpt from Lucy Aylmer, Vol. 1 Oh' down to the summer-house, to be sure, there is nothing to be seen in the gar den! Come along, Lucy, sweet Lucy Neal' Wait a moment, Maude I must just tie my hat-strings there now, I m ready. Then let us have a polka! And Maude, again putting her arm round the slender waist of her sister, whirled her down to the bottom of a wide, ill-kept lawn; there they stopped breathless, and threw themselves into a low garden seat. 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.