The Destroyer (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The DestroyerWe should have had one of our own, he said, and used to go whistling to the kennels.Indeed, Sir Saul was almost always out of doors, which was taken as a bad sign. He preferred his hounds and jesses. He said he could keep his hounds in leash well enough, whereas he never could control the yelling pack of his wife's words.Yelling! Was the word your father used, Said Lady Rimmon to Violet, as if I yell, and I have never got over the way he described my voice. He said my voice was an earsore That was the voice which, when I married him, was a bird's warble.' It agitated me for a week, and I have never forgotten it.But she accepted her illusions, and reserved all her affection for her daughter. She determined to discover a safe marriage. She felt it to be surprising that Sir Saul had turned so careless on a matter so grave.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.