Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields Toru dutt was the youngest of my three children. All the three were of great promise, and all the three were taken away from me early, in the very bloom of youth. I note the dates in which they were born, and the dates in which it pleased the Lord to remove them hence. 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.