Excerpt from The Rose of Jericho The other old lady was round and comfortable and sweet, with the colour of a winter apple in her brown cheeks, and a light like youth in her bright hazel eyes. Almost like youth too was the strength still evident in every part of her sturdy frame There were laugh wrinkles around her eyes, and kind ones around her mouth, and her grey hair rippled softly from under an Irish mutch cap. She must have been beloved once. 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.