Excerpt from Barbara's BrothersThose who knew the family best shook their heads when the question of provision was broached. Dr. Meynal was known to have expended his patrimony in the purchase of the Cedars, when he married his beautiful young portionless wife, and surrounded her with all those luxuries that her loveliness and fragility seemed to demand. True, the practice was large and lucrative - most likely it brought in some two or three thousand pounds a year - but then the expenditure of that house hold could not be much under that, and there seemed little probability of any substantial provisions having been made.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.