Susan Drummond

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Excerpt from Susan Drummond: A Novel Down in the country the meadows were yellow with buttercups, the hawthorns were in full blossom, in the Hertfordshire woods, sweet-scented white and purple violets literally carpeted the turf, beside the meandering streams of Surrey wild flowers were spreading and blooming, but still the spring had been late and ungenial, the accustomed easterly winds had held a longer carnival than usual, vegetation, on the whole, was backward, and as a natural consequence, Hyde Park, which seems specially sensitive to the influence of weather, could not, in the May of 1874, be considered looking its very best, as is sometimes the case in that "merrie" month sacred to catarrh, rheumatism, and bronchitis. The winter of 1873-1874 was what is generally called "singularly mild." It was singularly disagreeable, at all events: snow and frost held aloof, and bitter blasts and raw unwholesome mists and damps prevailed instead. That season will in one district of London be ever held memorable for a most dense and awful three days' fog, during which period a darkness like unto that of Egypt spread its pall over the whole of the East End. On New Year's night 1874, indeed, it seemed as though the English climate had determined to turn over a fresh and satisfactory leaf. Such a fine evening was surely never known before on any 1st of January, so magnificent a moon rarely, even in August, has shone on fields where the grain was ripe for the reaper's sickle, but, like too many good resolutions made that day, the promise of amendment led to no lasting improvement, and winter dragged itself into the lap of spring, and the spring itself was late and dreary, and in the May of that year Hyde Park was not looking its best. 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.