Excerpt from The InvasionConventional commonplace, and feeble ignorance seem to have become of late the most approved signs of correct breeding, and on such grounds they certainly could not expect social acceptance. So I will simply say that their happy modest home was Open only to a few intimate friends, that when anyone went in, the husband was generally seen skylarking with the children, and the wife was, in her busy kindly way, on household cares intent.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.