Excerpt from The Raven's Feather: A Story for Children<br><br>With these words, (which, in his intense feeling, he had spoken half aloud,) he picked u the feather, and placing it in his hat, said, I will keep it as a remembrancer, and never despair he then set off immediately to leave the bridge. But a respectable man who was passing at the moment, heard the last words he had spoken, and looking attentively at the boy who was thus talking German to himself, addressed him in German also, and asked, From whence do you come?<br><br>Severin hesitated whether he should say from Germany or London, but at last replied, I am a German.<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.