Sedgely Court, Vol. 1 of 3

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Excerpt from Sedgely Court, Vol. 1 of 3: A TaleBut about fifty years ago, the time at which my story begins, the old mansion-house was still a tolerably comfortable place of residence, and, with its pretty surrounding fields, was the property of Captain Beaton, a retired military officer, in whose family it had been for many more generations than could be reckoned up by anybody now alive. It was but a meagre inheritance, the very best year's rental of which rarely exceeded £500 and its possessors, scarcely able to rank as county gentle-folks, had always been content to be long to the town rather than the county. The present laird, perhaps, had he been so inclined, might have held up his head a little higher than most of his, predecessors, but besides that, like them, he was rather unambitious, there were circumstances in his domestic lot which seemed to forbid the hope that the family should for some time at least take a higher position in the social scale.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.