Excerpt from Rambles in Search of Wild Flowers, and How to Distinguish Them As her mother closed the door, Fanny's eye still dwelt on the outward view. She was not gazing on the beach with its small complement of pedestrians, nor upon the waters of the Severn, with which the fresh tide of the channel was now striving, nor yet upon the grey line of the Welsh coast and the scarcely less faint outline of the flat and steep Holmes; but her eye was fixed with a yearning look Of inquiry upon the distant thread where sky and water meet, and that look seemed to ask, What is there in the future for me? Is there rest? For my spirit is weary of all that has been. She turned slowly as her mother's footsteps receded, and addressed Esther. 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.