Excerpt from Godwyn's Ordeal, Vol. 2 of 3 It did not, as she Often explained, signify much to her now whatever freaks her brother's ward might take into her head, as her own visit to the manor-house could not be prolonged for ever; and she had a way Of ignoring the stories which Godwyn told, and which other people believed to be true, as if they were apocryphal. All that cant about patching up cottages and taking care Of the poor seemed to her to be very far fetched, but beyond stinging little allusions, properly sheathed and su gared, she no longer interfered with Godwyn as she had been wont to inter fere. 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 Godwyn's Ordeal, Vol. 3 of 3 Deprived of his pension, and unable to support himself in ill-health, She found him lying in bed in miserable London lodgings, with the pervading smell of garlic and onion from the other rooms in the house, with the dirt swept into corners, and the torso of a jug, Spout less and handleless, doing duty in his carpetless room. To make things worse, as the lodgings were near the river, and as be occupied an apartment on the ground oor, there was an insidious damp per vading everything with great patches, like furry mould on the paper of the walls. 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 Godwyn's Ordeal, Vol. 1 of 3 Them or attempt to use them, even when that Officer ordered him to leave his house and called upon his servants to turn him out, employing Opprobrious terms in English and Hindustani; and that, though some irregular firing had afterwards taken place, there had been no blood shed, and the accuser had been the first assailant. It was asserted in proof Of this that, though Captain Payton was an expert marksman, yet at six paces - much less than the usual duelling distance - he did not kill, nor even wound, the man whom he was falsely charged with firing at with intent to murder. 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 Ordeal, Vol. 2 of 3: A Novel The sternness of winter had disappeared, and the increasing softness Of' the air pro claimed that his rigorous empire Was drawing to a close. 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 Gerald's Ordeal, Vol. 2 of 3: A Novel That lazy beggar, Mortimer, had not made his appearance when he came out, and would probably have gone off somewhere on his own account before this, Charles thought, and so not caring to go back immediately to the hotel, he crossed the street and entered the garden of the Tuileries at one of the side gates. Here, for some time, he remained wandering up and down the' shaded alleys, or reclining on one of the seats, until a sudden longing for an ice took possession of him, and he summoned sufficient energy to return to his hotel for the purpose of getting one. 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.

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Excerpt from The Ordeal, Vol. 3 of 3: A Novel Quently feign sleep to avoid so insipid and teasing a conversation. 'but Murray's te spectful tenderness and mlnute attention was a matter of far more uneasiness to Lau ra than the petty sorrows of his wife. At first she thought him only grateful and as no sentiment burnt steadier and brighter in her breast than that of gratitude, so she perceived it in others without surprise; but it was not long ere she marked, with equal astonishment and dismay, traces of that love he once so ardently. Felt, and eu thusiastically expressed. Conduct and man ner, that thus forcibly recalled all that Mur ray had once been, 'to her, renewed many a painful although it could not revive an affection which had been 'so harsh ly expelled. Those looks, that once had breathed rapture into her soul, gave her now but a strong sensation of wounded, insulted feeling the accent that brought to mind what was, past, never. To. Return. 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.