Excerpt from The Thousand Eugenias: And Other Stories The schoolroom was deserted because an uncle, who had come to Bayswater Square on a few days' visit, had taken the children to the Zoological Gardens for the afternoon. He had not invited Miss Ferrers, their governess, to join the party; and after she had tidied the schoolroom and had done various out-of-door commissions for the mistress of the house, she returned to her kingdom on the fourth floor and sat down to rest. Next day she was going to the seaside with the family, and she still had to pack for herself and the children; but she was too tired to begin directly. The hot weather had come with a rush, and she had been on her feet for hours. Mrs. Hunter and her grown-up daughters had agreed at lunch-time that they were not inclined to move, so Amabel Ferrers had been obliged to move for them from shop to shop and back to the house again, until her little body was aweary of this great world. 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.