Excerpt from The Banker's Wife, or Court and City, Vol. 1 of 3: A NovelDear Sir, I cannot more strongly mark that the fol lowing 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 fibanking profession in a house of business which has existed in the same spot since the sfyear 1650, has added to its distinctions in (his own person, by connecting it with the jliterature and fine arts of the kingdom. Believe me, dear Sir, Yours faithfully, C. F. Gore.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.