Lost in a Great City (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Lost in a Great City"But I am so afraid, Maggie! The horses are so large, and those great wagons and all the people! Oh, I can't, I can't!"Catch tight hold of my dress, so. And don't you remember that I told you I was to be your mamma now?"You are not my mamma, Maggie!" and the child threw back her head with a proud, indignant gesture, as if some right of birth asserted itself unconsciously. "You are my own dear mamma's nurse-maid, and I cannot call you anything but just Maggie. My mamma is in heaven, and I can never have another one."As she stood there on one of the down-town corners of Broadway, she made a noticeable picture. A rarely beautiful child of seven years, though small for her age, shaped with exquisite symmetry, slender, yet not thin, with a certain supple gracefulness characterizing every movement, and not less remarkable in her present pose. The complexion was of a peculiar pearly tint, her hair pale golden, abundant, and waving over her shoulders a rippling mass.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.