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Excerpt from Progress and Prejudice, Vol. 3 of 3But it was not alone because the place afforded them such interesting and healthful occupation, that they dreaded to leave it. In London, they must be in a great measure deprived of the society of that best of sons and brothers, who was now their constant com panion, seeking their aid and counsel not only in his domestic arrangements, but in his plans for bettering the condition of the hun dreds ...

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Excerpt from The Banker's Wife, or Court and City, Vol. 1 of 3: A Novel Dear Sir, I cannot more strongly mark that the following pages are intended to exhibit the failings of an individual, not as an attack upon a class, than by placing at the head of my work the name of one who, ancestrally connected for the last two centuries with the banking profession in a house of business which has existed in the same spot since the year 1650, has add...

Excerpt from The Banker's Wife, or Court and City, Vol. 2 of 3: A NovelYour father begged me to tell you, Walter, said Mrs. Hamlyn, embracing her son with a dejected air, as she was about to enter the carriage for her journey that he had half promised Colonel Hamilton you would dine with him to-day. Do, my dear son, if not very disagreeable to you! You have no reasonable excuse, for the Colonel is aware that you are staying here alone 3'About ...

Excerpt from The Banker's Wife, or Court and City, Vol. 3 of 3: A Novel Moreover, all was so bright, so prosperous, so sunshiny around her, that it seemed absurd to look out for breakers when launched on that glassy sea, and under a sky so propi tious. Flattering as was her position in London life, the banker's wife had never felt the value of her good acceptation ln society till called upon to present her daughter. The kindness with which Ly...

Excerpt from Hungarian Tales, Vol. 1 of 3I venture to record these unimportant circumstances, to shew' that while our sole or chief acquaintance with Hungary is derived from Dr. Bright's excellent volume, there is scarcely an event of English life, -a folly of London fashion, or an invention of British industry, which does not find admirers and com mentators and imitators, among the Hun garians of respectable degree.About the PublisherForgotte...

Excerpt from Birthright, Vol. 2 of 3: And Other TalesFew districts in Europe are more devoid of local interest than the frontier-country between Belgium and France: especially at its maritime extremity, towards Western Flanders, where dykes and ditches, and an ill-favoured, aguish lookin g population a¿'ord incontrovertible testi mony to the fenny nature of the soil. In that ¿at and dreary landscape, Where a canal becomes an interesting featur...

Excerpt from Hungarian Tales, Vol. 2 of 3 Oh! Who would be a woman! Who that fool, A weeping, pining, faithful, loving woman? She hath hard measures still where she hopes kindest. 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 reconstru...

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Excerpt from Birthright, and Other Tales, Vol. 1 of 3 Most true! Replied the young man to whom this observation was addressed, by a companion of more' than double his years, as they sat together over their Wine, in the dining room of a fine old country mansion, named Holme Court, enjoying sweet converse which appeared to have led the elder of the two into a vein somewhat narrative. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of t...

Excerpt from Mothers and Daughters, Vol. 2 of 3: A Tale of the Year 1830 Elbe. Immediate drowning is preferable to hanging next season, which would have been poor Frederick's inevitable destiny. Lorimer is far too sensitively honourable a fellow to put up with a giddy ¿irting wife. 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 o...

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Excerpt from The Sketch Book of Fashion, Vol. 1 of 2: The Second Marriage, My Place in the Country, The PavilionTn]: following Tales form the last of a series of Nevels, of a class created by the peculiar spirit of the last reign, and manifestly at variance with that of the present times. These sketchy performances, although favoured with critical praise fir beyond their pretensions or deserts, have in some instances been blamed for pungency o...

Excerpt from The Dowager, or the New School for Scandal, Vol. 1 of 3A favourite complaint of foreigners against London, is the tedious length of the streets. To an eye familiar only With the picturesque irregularities of foreign cities, nothing can ex ceed the monotony of such thoroughfares as Baker Street, or Gloucester Place - traversing under varied denominations, a Whole parish, and carrying the eye along a waste of weary brick walls perfo...

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Excerpt from Cecil, or the Adventures of a Coxcomb, Vol. 3 of 3: A Novel My poetry is the dream of the sleeping passions. When they are awake, I cannot speak their language - only in. 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 recon...

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