Excerpt from At the Gate of Samaria: A Novel Mrs. Blather smiled somewhat pityingly. Since the earliest days of her long widowhood she had undertaken the charge Of her father's house and the care Of her two younger sisters, Janet and Clytie. Her familiarity, there fore, with the seamy side Of Clytie's nature had been of long duration. You might as well talk to that fender, papa, she said. Clytie has got it into her head that she is going to be an artist, and no amount of talking will get it out. 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.