Harry Joscelyn, Vol. 3 of 3 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Harry Joscelyn, Vol. 3 of 3There was a very comfortable couple inside. Joan, on her marriage, had been half ashamed of the fine room, which was called - not according to her old-fashioned formula, the parlour, but - the drawing-room, to which her husband had brought her home, and which had been furnished by one of the best shops in Carlisle, with furniture such as was approved by the taste of the time. There was a white paper on the walls, and a great deal of gilding, and sofas and tables with legs that were crooked and curly. But by the end of ten years much that was somewhat showy once had toned down. The furniture had got more shapely and a little human, the place had worn into the fashion of the people that inhabited it. In sum mer it was a perfect bower of lilies and roses, the great white shafts of the one rising above the broad branches, heavy, with ¿owers, of the other (for in those days there were no standards), and the whole air sweet with the mingled perfume. Liddy J oscelyn, Mrs. Selby's little sister, thought there was no ¿ower-garden in the world like it, but then she had not been away from home since she was twelve, and had not seen much, and there was nothing like it about the White House. That, place, too, had changed in these years. B 2.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.