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Excerpt from Mr. Witt's Widow: A Frivolous Tale The Nestons, of Tottlebury Grange in the county of Suffolk, were an ancient and honourable family, never very distinguished or very rich, but yet for many generations back always richer and more distinguished than the common run of mankind. 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...
Excerpt from Mr. Witt's Widow: A Frivolous Tale The Nestons, of Tottlebury Grange in the county of Suffolk, were an ancient and honourable family,...
Excerpt from Half a Hero: A Novel In the garden the question was settled without serious difference of opinion. If Sir Robert Perry really could not go on - and Lady Eynesford was by no means prepared to concede even that - then Mr. Puttock, bourgeois as he was, or Mr. Coxon, conceited and priggish though he might be, must come in. At any rate, the one indisputable fact was the impossibility of Mr. Medland: this was, to Lady Eynesford's mind, axiomatic, and, in the safe privacy of her family circle (for Miss Scaife counted as one of the family, and Captain Heseltine and Mr. Flemyng did...
Excerpt from Half a Hero: A Novel In the garden the question was settled without serious difference of opinion. If Sir Robert Perry really could n...
Excerpt from Rupert of Hentzau: From the Memoirs of Fritz Von Tarlenheim A Man who has lived in the world, marking how every act, although in itself perhaps light and insignificant, may become the source of consequences that spread far and wide, and flow for years or centuries, could scarcely feel secure in reckoning that with the death of the Duke of Strelsau and the restoration of King Rudolf to liberty and his throne, there would end, for good and all, the troubles born of Black Michael's daring conspiracy. The stakes had been high, the struggle keen; the edge of passion had been...
Excerpt from Rupert of Hentzau: From the Memoirs of Fritz Von Tarlenheim A Man who has lived in the world, marking how every act, although in itse...
