Book excerpt: Excerpt from Drift Miss emma endicott sat up very straight, knit ted rapidly and looked at her niece. The expression around her mouth indicated that no further statement of the case need be made; she was unalterably, inexorably, and completely opposed. Nevertheless, her niece went on talking, the slow cadences of her young voice rising and falling until her aunt gave an exasperated sigh. Eileen 's voice was one of the things that made it difficult for an elderly lady, outwardly rigid but inwardly soft, to hold her own. In an undulating, wheedling, altogether illegitimate manner, independent of the words it spoke, this shame less voice assailed and beat upon her unresisting ears, crept in and wound itself around her too tender heart, until, struggling more and more feebly, she would feel her brave show of resistance fade to a spasmodic flutter and go out. 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.