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Excerpt from Gertrude, Vol. 3 of 3: Or, Family Pride It did not take her long to discover the cause of the volatile Lucy's pre-occupation. On the opposite side of the room to that now occupied by the gentlemen, stood a richly-carpeted oval table, almost covered with books and engravings and around, or near this table, were congregated the sofas and easy chairs on which the ladies were seated. One fair deserter from this group, had, for some reason or other, (perhaps, to examine the dimensions of some particularly fine tree, ) stationed herself in a graceful attitude of me ditation at one of the windows. It required no second glance to shew Ger trude that this solitary fair one was Miss Mor rison. There was, indeed, no chance that any other could be mistaken for her; for who else could have found so beautiful an attitude in which to place themselves, merely for the sake of looking out of a window? 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.