A Lost Lady of Old Years: A Romance (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A Lost Lady of Old Years: A RomanceWhen Gideon Birkenshaw - of Birkenshaw Tower in the Forest and the lands of Markit beneath the brow of remote Cheviot - was summoned by death to his account, he left all to his eldest son and turned the other penni less upon the world. Robert, the heir, stepped unthinking into the dead man's shoes, and set himself to the family task Of amassing gear. He was a man already grim and aging at thirty, with the stoop Of an inquisitor and deep eyes to search out the intents Of the heart. Of old the house had been insignificant raiders, adding field to field and herd to herd by a method which it seemed scarce fair to call plunder, so.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.