Excerpt from The Step-Mother, Vol. 2 of 3 On the evening after the accident which, with its consequences, has occupied so much of our attention, about half an hour before nightfall, the graceful figure of Lucy Edmonds was observed walking along the sandy path by the side of the swamp, which at that 'shady hour offered a dreary and melancholy scene enough. She had a basket on her arm, and her fair face was sad, with her eyes bent down upon the ground. 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.