Excerpt from Patience Holt, Vol. 3 of 3 She responded to their congratulations as she best could. She suggested that they might as well sit down, and then she said she was sure they were much interested in Patience's prospects, and - and they and she must all hope that the marriage would turn out for the best; and then after a very few words more she began to talk of something else, - and Celia and Lily, it must be confessed, sat on their chairs, feeling disappointed and chilled. 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.