Excerpt from Annette: A Novel But I really did enjoy the work which, during poor Mark's life, I had tried to do, of visiting the native women in their homes, and dropping into their often ready minds a few words of thought, not always strictly religious, as the phrase goes, but such as I hoped might spring up and clothe the bare ground of their lives with something like beauty and freshness. Then, too, I had got through the most vexing difficulties of the language. The women were beginning to feel that I was their friend, and it did seem a pity to throw away that five years of foundation work, and start again as an idle woman in my own country. 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.