Excerpt from The Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. 296: January to June, 1904 Bwas a tall, fair, good-featured fellow with a very pleasant expression; but the furrow of care was now stamped on his face, marking him apart from other men of his age, though it did not make him look exactly older, for most people took him for younger than he was. He was just thirty when Ella died. His children were sweet and intelligent as children could be. Altogether there was no family more likely to gain friends and excite sympathy, but the air of quiet reserve which had come over Douglas with his sorrow seemed to have been inherited in some degree by his children even when they were quite little. 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.