Excerpt from The Healers Their only son. Edward, grew up in the persistent, all-pervading atmosphere of the Semicolon. The three girls did not, being early sent to boarding-school. Their mother was in the habit of remarking, very justly, that she could not educate ordinary girls. 'l-iad my rls, ' she said, 'been out of the common - l' She ew nothing of what her girls were, little enough about her son. 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.