Grounded (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Grounded As long as there are blue skies, while there are fresh and lovely flowers, I trust that there will be young girls - as sweet and innocent as Bettina Wane - who may enjoy them. Closely followed by the lumbering and ungainly form of old Margaret O'Keefe, Bettina's slender figure was clearly outlined in the early morning light of a soft and balmy summer day as the two proceeded along the public highway that passed in front of the young girl's home. "We'll shure be afther foindin' thim this toime, Miss Bettina darlin', because we're out so airly, " puffed the old woman, waddling cheerfully on. "Annyway, their purty faces an' the bright eyes of them shud soon be lookin' up at us." "Yes, Margaret dear, " answered the girl, her carefully modulated words making a strange contrast to the thick tones of her companion's voice, "I hope today that we shall be successful in our quest." "There be wan now!" exclaimed the old woman, ambling as hastily as she could to the edge of the ditch beside the road, and stooping down with great difficulty to examine something that was on the ground. "I don't believe that even in auld Oireland herself there iver was a purtier blue flower, set off with its green leaves, than this wan here!" 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.