Excerpt from Ada and Gerty: Or, Hand in Hand Heavenward T was a sunny day in the end of April when Gerty Stuart first went to school at Miss Martyn's; and it seemed to her, In her misery and home sickness, as if the bright weather mocked her. She was only eleven years old, poor child! And had never been away from home before; and though her father's house was not many miles out in the country, she felt it very far off then. Her mother kissed her and bade her good-bye in Miss Martyn's prim drawing-room; then Gerty heard the hall door shut, and the cab drive away to the station. 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.