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Excerpt from Patience: A Tale "If you could entertain a doubt of their ready acquiescence, you might well be anxious; but surely it is impossible they could think of removing her from you at that time, when your health requires the care of an affectionate and grateful daughter?" "I hope they will not, - yet some of their late letters have indicated such an intention; and so material a change in my residence may have a tendency to confirm a wavering resolution." "In my opinion," replied the good neighbour," they will act most ungratefully towards you, and cruelly towards her, if they divide you;" - "you have reared her from infancy, - nursed her from a sickly plant, into a blooming flower, and - " 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.