Excerpt from A Son of the Sea <p>Never unkind to him, never came back reeling and tottering and using horrible words as he saw the other women doing so often. And although she never made a fuss of him or talked to him much, he looked upon her as the best person in the world; while a few poor odds and ends in the little room, kept very clean and in neat order, seemed to him like the furniture of a palace. For young as he was, he felt rather than knew that his lot was far better and happier than that of most of his play-fellows, and knew too that it was through no fault of Granny's that he spent so many hours in the streets. One thing more, although the talk of everybody. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>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.