Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Son of the Sea 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. 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.