Excerpt from The Elliott Family, or the Trials of New-York Seamstresses IN an upper room of a small, but neatly furnished two story house, in one of the many streets which cross Broadway, in the city of N ew-york, a mother and two daughters are grouped about the sick couch of the hus band and father. The white quilt thrown over him, is scarce more white than the thin, attenuated hands which are moving in quick and restless action upon it. The snowy pillowlends a marked contrast to the ghastly, sallow lineaments of the sufferer, whose frame is ever and anon convulsed with agony, in the effort to draw the fast-expiring breath. The eyes are fixed and glassy, lacking all expression, save that Of terrible anguish. The lips, white and covered with froth, which the care ful hand of the weeping wife Wipes tenderly away, are colorless, and ever and anon contracted with terrible pain. 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.