Excerpt from The Man of PromiseJoseph West's grandfather had been one of the early settlers in the city. An exile for his beliefs, he had ¿ed from Holland at the overthrow Of that country's Older monarchy, to escape the wrath of an upstart prince. Here he had dropped his noble name and adopted the one Of West which symbolized both his defeat and his hope. He had married a distant daughter of the Bourbons, who had hoped to find in the new world beyond the At lantic, an escape from the horrors of 1789, but from whose eyes the sorrow Of that tragic period never parted.For two generations their ideals had been preserved. Their heritage, immaculate and unimpeached, had passed on through their children to their children's children.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.