The Sick-A-Bed Lady And Also, Hickory Dock, the Very Tired Girl, the Happy-Day, the Runaway Road, Something That Happened in October, the Amateur Lover, Heart of the City, the Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Sick-a-Bed Lady: And Also, Hickory Dock, the Very Tired Girl, the Happy-Day, the Runaway Road, Something That Happened in October, the Amateur Lover, Heart of the City, the Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business When the sick-a-bed Lady felt like sitting up high against her pillows, She could look out across the footboard through her opposite window. Now through that opposite window was a marvelous vista - an old-fashioned garden, millions of miles of ocean, and then - France! And when the wind was in just the right direction there was a perfectly wonderful smell to be smelled part of it was Cin namon Pink and part of it was salt-sea-weed, but most of it, of course, was - France. There were days and days, too, when any one with sense could feel that the waves beat perkily against the Shore with a very strong French accent, and that all one's French verbs, particularly Tu (limes, ll aime, were coming home to rest. What else was there to think about in bed but funny things like that? 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.