Excerpt from The Immortal Garland a Story of American Life The front door of the Game house stood hospitably wide, letting the light airs play in and out of the broad hallway. This first warm day of May brought with it a vitality in the air and sunshine which made it seem possible to watch the very buds expand, and the creeper uncurl its transparent tendrils. Within doors the air was chillier than outside, particularly in the long, dark, rarely used parlour, which occupied the right Side of the house. In the smaller morning room across the hall the tall windows were open, mak ing the temperature more pleasant, and thus it came to be occupied this morning by the owner and her friend and neighbour, Mrs. Cushing. The two were accus tomed to Spend many hours together in long silences, broken by short conversations on the subject of their children. They rarely talked of anything else, for they touched few other topics on common ground. 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.