Excerpt from Christie Elwood and Her Friends Mrs. Elwood looked quickly across at her daughter. It had struck her more than once, lately, that Christie had not seemed so strong as usual, and had sometimes complained; and the very expression of a desire to hear something good, brought back to the mother's heart the cold breath of a doubt which had swept over her more than once. Christie was the child of her old age, and was the very apple of their eye to both father and mother. 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.