Sir Limpidus (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Sir Limpidus Sir Limpidus was born at Clearfount Abbey in the sixties - the Age of Comparative Innocence - before the grimy engineer and his inventions had undermined the dwellings of the sons of light and forced them to bestir their wits in self-defence. Clearfount Abbey with its outbuildings covers five acres of good English ground, and with its park it occupies five hundred acres. Its gardens, edged with yew and laid out in ingenious figures by a host of gardeners, would be a public spectacle if any member of the public were allowed to see them. Its pineries, vineries, melon-houses, and conservatories have always been maintained in perfect order and, it is said, will hear comparison with any institutions of the kind in any country. The artificial lake before the mansion is well stocked with fish which no one of the household cares to bring to land, and in a boat-house in a tuft of willows rest three skiffs with yellow sculls which no one of the household cares to use. The vistas of the park, the dells, the shapely coppices would captivate the eye of any artist, but no artist ever sees them save such daughters of the house and lady visitors as now and then may have essayed a water-colour drawing. For all this vast domain, with all that it contains, is strictly private. Of all its beauties, sacred privacy alone is valued by the owners. 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.