Excerpt from The English Fireside, Vol. 2 of 3: A Tale of the Past Of a ship were visible, and here and there fishingboats dotted the unruflledsnrface of the clear, deep blue ocean. Flocks of sea gulls wheeled their graceful flight, and dipped their snowy breasts, and, as the invalid con tinned to watch, her eyes filled unconsciouslv with tears, but not of sadness, and she wept long and silently. Not a word was spoken; but the father icclved the emotion of his child ere she t felt it, and, suppressing his own, mled not to see the effects of her and fading health. He forced a pull his careworn features, and strained nlness in his voice ill according with. 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.