Excerpt from Truth Is Everything: A Tale for Young Persons Mrs. Norris was a lady of poor health, and not able to attend, as she otherwise would have thought right, to the care and education of her children. They had lately sustained a severe loss in the death of a faithful nurse, whose judicious management of the little ones had been of inesti mable value to them. Her place was filled by a young woman who had received a good character of some years from her last place; and, having had but little experience in the choice of nurse maids, Mrs. Norris thought herself fortunate in supplying her great loss with so trustworthy a person as Susan Bennett. Susan was certainly an active, industrious girl, good tempered, and kind to the children; She might, indeed, have deserved the character her late mistress gave of her to Mrs. Norris, that of a most invaluable person, but - and there is a but to most characters - but for a deficiency of moral courage, which in times of temptation made her unwilling and afraid to speak the truth. 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.