Excerpt from Mordaunt Hall; Or a September Night, Vol. 2 of 3: A Novel Buti think the cases will not bear a parallel. Though unquestionably this habit of fostering, and the consequent painful disruption at that early age, of a child's strongest affections, must have produced both misery and evil, yet there was the mother at home, waiting to receive the child with that sort of sympathetic tenderness which unites the mother with her infant in bonds so mysterious and so strong; and there was, in all probability, a family of brothers and sisters to welcome the little stranger into their bosom. I have heard a description of this return home to a father's wealthy house by one nursed for two years in a cottage, and of the elder sisters carry ing the poor, little, heart-broken child about, and trying everything in their power to divert and comfort it. The natural affections thus excited soon heal the wound that has been inflicted; but how different was the case for this poor little boy! 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.