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Excerpt from East and West: The Story of a Missionary Band
Now there was indeed something pleasant to look forward to, and Marjorie counted the hours that must pass before the next Wednesday would Come, the day on which the Indian steamer was expected to reach London. The steamer was keeping its time, so her father was able to go down to the docks to meet it, and, while he was away, her mother sat on the couch beside Marjorie, who, in honour of the occa sion, was dressed in a new red dressing-gown. Her mother kept her quiet by telling her over again stories about this Auntie Ruth when she was a little girl. 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.
