Excerpt from Nellie Maturin's Victory Come, my dear, we must be getting back to the house. It is no good staying any longer, you know. You can come back later on and put some flowers on the grave when it is filled up. But you had better come away with me just now. And perhaps she spoke the truth, for the girl shivered as the first spadeful of earth fell upon the coffin lid, and swayed a little, as if she were about to fall. Whereupon the elder woman seized her by the arm and drew her away to the gravelled pathway, where she let her stand for a moment in silence, to recover herself. 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.