Excerpt from The Master of Riverswood, Vol. 2 of 3: A Novel When a man marries a pretty, a graceful, and a sufficiently amiable woman, he is, as a rule, too much enamoured of her, for the first year or two, to find out whether he is really a disappointed man or not. 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 Master of Riverswood a Novel, Vol. 3 of 3 The winter passed away. Christmas - with its wonderful "Weihnachtsabend" for the young Hoffners, when the "grand salon" was thrown open, when wax lights were shining everywhere, when madame was in silk and smiles (she possessed dresses, shawls, and jewels enough to have been a small fortune to a woman "going into society"), when monsieur was beaming, and the guests cheerful, and the beautiful illuminated fir-tree the centre of a wealth of presents - all this was a thing of the past. 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.

Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.