Excerpt from Demorest's Illustrated Monthly and Mme Demorest's Mirror of Fashions: April, 1865<br><br>He wanted, as children sometimes do. Above all other things, human faces and society, but his mother was absorbed, as the most doating mothers sometimes are, and the nursery girl was absent.<br><br>The child trotted uneasily about the room. Seeking for some interest or attraction, and at last slipped softly out of the door and into the-hall; while his mother was too much absorbed to notice his disappearance. And the little boy, enjoying vastly the sense of a freedom which he obtained so surreptitiously, made a careful descent by the stairs, and started for the parlor, in a vague quest of somebody.<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.