Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Slings and Arrows: Arrowsmith's Christmas Annual, 1885
Although Mr. Loraine was a man of wealth, and moreover by education and, I believe, family fully entitled to take a high social position, Herstal Abbey was not his ancestral home. He had acquired it by simple right of purchase having bought out an old, improvident, but popular county family - bought it out so completely, that if he did not literally step into its shoes, he sat in its very chairs and used its very tables. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
