Mrs. Gerald
A Novel (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Mrs. Gerald: A Novel<br><br>"I Guess they're feelin' real poor in these days. I must say I'm sorry for the women folks there. I heard down to the store they were goin' to put up their seraphine."<br><br>"You don't mean Judith's seraphine" asked Mrs. Macomber, looking up anxiously at her husband, who was standing by the cook-stove.<br><br>Mr. Macomber was slowly filling his pipe from some tobacco held in the palm of his hand. Occasionally he put his little finger into the bowl and pressed the loose stuff down more closely. He wore a green baize jacket which barely covered his hips, and which was buttoned up to the checked blue-and-white handkerchief tied firmly about his neck. This handkerchief was partly concealed by a white beard allowed to grow only below his chin.<br><br>You could not please Ellis Macomber in any way so much as to say to him, when you first met him, "Somehow, Mr. Macomber, you seem as if you'd been a seafaring man."<br><br>Then the rough old face would light up, and the man would reply, "You're right there, sir. Twenty-five years, lackin' three days, I passed on the briny. I was first mate of the best three-master that ever stepped over blue water. Then I broke my arm, 'n' I had phthisic, 'n' I ain't be'n nothin' since."<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.