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Excerpt from Transformed Mrs. Barney was a slight, wiry woman of medium height, with long dark hair tightly twisted into a knot at the back of her head without regard to smoothness; her complexion was dingy from exposure and greasiness. Her dark eyes had a restless expression, and she had a habit of moving her fingers nervously when she talked. By nature she was more active and energetic than her husband, but in the discouragements of poverty she had grown indolent and careless. A little north of the Waltham district was, fifteen or twenty years ago, a large tract of land known as the swamp and there, on a little clearing, lived the Barneys. The hovel in which they existed was built partly of logs and partly of slabs. It had no oor, and no chim ney; there had been a sort of a oor made of slabs laid with the at side up, but these, having rested upon the damp ground, had long since rotted away. There had been three windows. 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.