Excerpt from Serena and Samantha: Being a Chronicle of Events at the Torbolton Home Home for Indigent Females, sunshine and azure skies without, but within, gloom and dejection. In the spacious southwest front corner room of the second story, little Mrs. Samantha Wells was dabbling wet blue eyes with a moist handkerchief, while her roommate, Mrs. Serena Dodd, sniffed tempestuously. 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.