Excerpt from Joseph Vance: An Ill-Written AutobiographyIwasannallboyoieevenatthietilnabutimusthavebeeu observant, from the vividness of my recollection of the events of that Saturday afternoon. My young mind, catching ite impres sions from m Mother's way of looking at the eituation, end supported by the cheerfulnees (which may have been partly artifi cial) with which my Father accepted the sack, drew the inference that my Father had dismissed Fothergill's, and was now open to all kinds of preferment which his late employers' malice had hitherto prevented reaching him. This coloured our conversation as we walked along the main road towards London after the family dinner. I accompanied him on the pretext that I was competent angk'willingtopreventhistakingmorethanapintatthelloe'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.