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Excerpt from Matthew Dale, Farmer My father had died two years before, - died as became a minister of the Relief body, ' in the full odour of poverty, - leaving his twice-orphaned children all but penniless, and myself (the only daughter) too ill-educated as to what are called accomplishments to be able to relieve my necessities by any work short of menial; and at that my friend and adviser Janet had never even hinted as among the possibilities to which I might be driven. 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.