Excerpt from The Brookes of Bridlemere, Vol. 3 of 3Philip, coming home from business, that even ing was formally repudiated by the fickle young lady, who announced her approaching nuptials with Good Blair, as She called him, in a tone of becoming solemnity. He could not but laugh at the gravity with which Dot administered consola tion for his disappointment, assuring him that on her wedding trip, to the place where the beasts are, like my Noah's Ark, if he would promise not to cry he should go there too.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.