Excerpt from Mr. Wynyard's Ward, Vol. 1 of 2 They Often thought afterwards how selfish they had been, how craving of a little pleasure. The question Of expense, debated with grave animation upstairs and down, and other questions, less prosaic but not more serious, touched them scarcely at all. Some experience and a vast deal Of imagination had exalted grandpapa's house into a place Of paradisaical delights, in contrast with which home appeared a dreary, desolate waste where dulness brooded in season and out Of season. Let us go, do let us go! Was their cry, morning, noon, and night, and they heard nothing pathetic in nurse's ironical rejoinder: Ay, go, go; leave us. Leave father and mother to keep Christmas alone. GO your ways, an' be happy. You're like young bears - you've got all your troubles before you. 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.