Excerpt from Syrlin, Vol. 2 of 3Beaufront's chief place, Deloraine Castle, was not agreeable to him it was an enormous pile of composite architecture suggestive of im mense expenditure, stiffness, state, and constant social obligations. He infinitely preferred ahy of his other places, Heronsmere, in a south western county, a lovely old Tudor house set amidst luxuriant woods Ronceroi, a chateau in Normandy looking over the Channel seas Appledene, a pretty place in Somerset, or Mountley, a cottage near N ewmarket any and all of these he liked, and Heronsmere he almost loved, but Deloraine he hated, and yet it was at Deloraine that it was most necessary he should most conspicuously reside and oftenest entertain.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.