Excerpt from The Story of Elizabeth: With Other Tales and Sketches Elizabeth stood listening, with her fair head a little bent, while the maid said, no, sare, and then Miss Gilmour flushed up quite angrily in the inner room, and would have run out. She hesitated only for a minute, and then it was too late the door was shut, and Clementine sat dorm again to her work. Clementine, how dare you say I was not at home '2 cried Elizabeth, suddenly standing before her. Madame desired me to let no one in in her absence, said Clementine, primly. I only obeyed my orders. There is the gentleman's card. Sir John Dampier was on the card, and then, in pencil, I hope you will be at home in Chester Street next week. Can I be your amni courier in any way I cross to-night. 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.