Excerpt from Goslington Shadow, Vol. 1 of 2: A Romance of the Nineteenth Century But of the laird hereafter - wand, to return to the weather. It was no Scotch mist they had to con tend with, but a heavy rain, and cold, sleety show ers, which ruined their crops. And they did not look it to the sky, or lift, as they call it, expecting it to all - when, according to the proverb, they might catch larks; but they looked for some judg ment on account of the freethinkers about Straven; who set no bounds to their infidelity. 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.