The Fugitives (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The FugitivesWas used to the vacant bigness of the great house, often inhabited by only herself and her little sister, and a crowd Of servants. She had been in the hands of a governess till very lately, and in the routine of lessons and the certainty that a school-girl was not likely to be interrupted by visitors, had escaped all consciousness of the isolation of the great house. It was the most splendid in the county, surrounded by a beautiful park, embosomed in great trees. When Mr. Goulburn bought it from the de caying proud family to whom its glories belonged, Fareham was already a noble place, and he had added greatly to it, had built out a room here and a room there, and enlarged it with every extra vagance of convenience that lavish wealth could think of. He had built and decorated in the most costly way the splendid room in which his daughter was sitting, he had fitted out for her a suite of rooms worthy of a princess, the very servants were lodged as half the well-to-do people in England would have been glad to be lodged. Outside, in the darkness of the summer night, full of dew and rain and soft fragrance were acres of ¿ower-beds and conservatories, tended by a regiment of gar denets.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.