Excerpt from Leonard Normandale, Vol. 1 of 3: Or the Three Brothers, a Novel Gentle reader, lend me - Nay, do not look so alarmed and button up your pockets, for, although a younger son, I am not going to borrow money of you; - all I ask, gentle reader, is, that you will lend me - your ears. This work is written for the purpose of setting before the public a picture of the sufferings to which the younger sons of the British aristocracy may be exposed. Although the events related are chiefly fictitious, there is not a single one that either might not have happened or may not happen. 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.