Excerpt from The Simple Flower: And Other Tales "These sweet little flowers thrive everywhere," said Emma, as she walked with her mother through the pleasure grounds of their beautiful residence, and stopped to admire the modest heart's-ease peeping out from the long grass on a shady bank. "They do indeed my dear," replied her mamma; "and they furnish us with a lovely emblem of that contentment which with godliness is great gain, which knows how to abound and how to suffer need; and can glorify the Giver of all good under the most afflictive dispensations." 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.