Excerpt from The Wildfords in India There were books and pictures and many other things spread out before them, but Minnie's bright eyes were fixed on a ruby ring that glittered on her finger, while Harry's hands were thrust into his pockets and his mouth was puckered into a whistle. Suddenly he took his eyes from the ceiling, at which he had been staring with all his might, and fixed them upon his sister. He began to look at her from her head to her feet, and then from. Her feet up again, as though he wished to examine her very carefully. 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.