John Ward's Governess

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Excerpt from John Ward's Governess: A Novel John Ward. It was not a pretty or poetical name, and no wonder the Italian's ears, used to softer sounds, did not relish it. Mr. Ward, a rich banker of New York, died four years before my story opens, leaving his son a princely for tune, and under the protection and guardianship of his sister Margaret. Mr. Ward had been a proud man, and Margaret Ward, who at the beginning of my story was thirty-five, ten years her brother's senior, inherited all her father's pride. So it was not strange that she frowned on the youn cantatrice, her brother's intended bride. All t at a sister could do, had been done, but the young man grew only more obstinate, as he lau bed at her prophecies of unhappiness, and rushe more blindly Oh to his destruction. Be unhappy with his Rosa - impossible! And Mar garet would learn to love her, too, in time, for who could resist her? Spoiled from his youth up by a doting father, no wonder he listened coldly to his sister's warnings, and hurried more eagerly on. His mother died while he was yet12 john ward's governess.' 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.