Excerpt from Lady ClarissaWell, I can hardly say. He was terribly cut up at first, but he went away to Italy, and I saw no more of him till he came back post-haste in order to receive the dying commands of my late lord, his father. Lady Fordham was of a very high family, and she was sole heiress to I don't know how many thousands a year.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.