"The New Mistress" is a romance novel set in a small English town. Mrs. Thorne, a recent widow, and her children mourn the death of a dearly cherished husband and father. But there is more bad news to come. Due to her husband's business speculation, the family is financially ruined. Now the eldest daughter Hazel has to take charge due to her mother's poor health and they move to a small town where she is to take up a job as a school mistress. But in the forced move, there is divine providence...

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Excerpt from The New Mistress: A Tale "Remember, Hazel," said Mrs. Thorne, "remember this - we may be reduced in circumstances; we may have been compelled by misfortune to come down into this wretched little town, and to live in this miserable, squeezy, poorly-furnished house or cottage, with the light kept out by the yellow glass, and scarcely a chimney that does not smoke; we may be compelled to dress shab - " "Yes, yes, mother dear - " "bily," said Mrs. Thorne, with indignant emphasis on account of the interruption, "but remember this, Hazel, you are a lady." "Forgive me for interrupting you, mother." "Mamma, Hazel," said the lady, drawing herself up with great dignity. "If we are by a cruel stroke of fate compelled to live in a state of indigence when pride has made my eldest child refuse the assistance of my relatives, I still maintain that I have a right to keep up my old and lady-like title - mamma." "But, dear, I am only a schoolmistress now - a national schoolmistress, and it would sound full of foolish assumption if I called you mamma. And are you not my dear, dear mother? There, there, good-bye, dear," cried the speaker, kissing her affectionately; "and mind the dinner is done, for I shall be, - oh, so hungry." 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.