Excerpt from Sylvan Holt's Daughter, Vol. 3 of 3 When Colonel Fielding entered the school room, his mother and Katie were seated one on each side of the fire, and Cecy, rather flushed and warm, as if she had been shedding a few angry tears, kneeled on the hearth with her arm lying across her mother's knee. It was too evident that there had been an exchange of sharp words-also, for Katie looked excessively pale and haughty, while Mrs. Fielding appeared nervous and agitated; there was an uncomfortable air of restraint and displeasure over the whole party very embarrassing, but the Colonel appeared not to see it, and drawing in one of the cumbrous old chairs to the fire he sat down, and asked what special communication had caused his mother to send for him. 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.