Excerpt from Cruel Fortune, Vol. 2 of 3 Lady Charrington returned to England in April. Almost immediately on her arrival, she sent for Val. The person whom she selected to escort her young companion to town was Armytage, her butler, a respectable, gray-headed, goodnatured man. For many reasons Val was glad to have an opportunity of being again with Lady Charrington, and of going to London. She therefore joyfully obeyed the summons. In the hazy twilight of an April evening, she was standing on the platform of the Ashtown station, with her escort. She was soon comfortably established within a first-class carriage, and on her way to the great metropolis. 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.

Excerpt from Cruel Fortune, Vol. 3 of 3 IT had happened that Val left her house while Mademoiselle Roussel was lingering over her dinner; otherwise the probability is that the Frenchwoman would have witnessed her de parture. She did not affect any concealment of her movements, but ordered a light cart to convey her trunks to the railway-station, and then, as the distance was so Short, walked to catch the train, carrying her boy in her arms. 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.

Excerpt from Cruel Fortune, Vol. 1 of 3 Crown, and disappeared. The harpist re mained outside, twanging the strings or play ing chords. That portion of the crowd which consisted of persons who had anything to do, went on, while the little boys and the idle girls, and one or two lazy women, stayed for the second part of the programme. 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.

Excerpt from Hostages to Fortune, Vol. 2 of 3: A Novel Herman has not availed himself of Mr. Lynd hurst's invitation for the Derby, Editha being in town at the time of the Epsom saturnalia, and all the races that were ever run being of no more account to her lover than a race of ies across the ceiling. 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."

Excerpt from Her Face Was Her Fortune, Vol. 2 of 3 Jane Graves did not call her young mistress in the morning as she had promised that she would. Helena Shaldon woke up late, after much fevered dreaming, and went downstairs, recking not of the changes that a few brief hours had made in many lives about her, and were to make inhers. There was no sign of Mrs. Graves about the house, but Helena was not alarmed. 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.

Excerpt from The Black Squire, or a Lady's Four Wishes, Vol. 2 of 3: A Novel Then he would break off into protestations that he would never be raised, like a reckless speculator, into discreditable afluence by the surreptitious acquisition of a wife's fortune - and such a woman! Not he! He would none of it; the very idea de graded his love. Love her he always must and would, but with a generous love, at his own cost, in a way that would not harm her. All he would hope was that he might some day, by some turn of' for tune's wheel, be able to make for her some great sacrifice what he could not exactly imagine, but something that would let her see the consuming fire that he had so manfully concealed. 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.

Excerpt from Splendid Misery, Vol. 2 of 3: A Novel The Marquis della Zoretta has no 'daughter: his cruelty difl'olved the bonds of duty and the ties of nature. 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.