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Excerpt from The False Friend, Vol. 1 of 4: A Domestic Story
The next claimant on his warmly phila'nthropic feelings was the infant Gertrude. Left unprotected, though too young to know the magnitude of her lofs, and thrown on a wide world of ibrrow, where her defencelefs (ex is expofed to every peril, every humi liation, {he found an afylum in the bofom which loved her gallant father, and which throbbed to bellow the bond of attachment on this ill-fated orphan. My Lord was then a minor, and preparing for his continental travels. The infant was committed to the care of an old and faithful female fervant of the B 2 family. 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.
