Excerpt from East and West: The Story of a Missionary Band Before that accident Marjorie had been full of life and spirits; she was the leader in all the games; and w, one look at her face as she lay on that sofa Showed plainly eugh that She was finding it very weary work thus to lie still hour after hour and day after day. Marjorie was ten years old. She had sisters, and only one brother, Rex; but he was away from home at a boarding school. Though Rex was full of fun and mischief, he was very fond of his little Sister, and tried to be good and kind to her when he was at home. 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 techlogy 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.