Excerpt from Lilliesleaf, Vol. 2 of 3: Being a Concluding Series of Passages in the Life of Mrs. Margaret Maitland, of Sunnyside My dear bairn, said I, being more earnest than I ever was with her before. Will you let me hear what ails you? I ken what trouble is myself; and many a young thing has told her trouble to me. And you are lone, and solitary, and motherless, my poor bairn - and I am an aged woman, and would fain bring you comfort, if it was in my power. Sit down here, and keep no ill thought in your heart of me; for 1 ken what it is to be solitary and without friends mysel. 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.