Excerpt from Through Fire to Fortune In the tiny parlour on the basement, looking upon a rather smoke-dried garden, the two girls settled themselves for the last gossip they were to have for years. Susan took a rocking-chair, which she moved to and fro, while her friend selected a low basket-work seat near the win dow, which was Open, for the August evening was warm. 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.