The Heriots (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The HeriotsIt was a relief to be able to turn from such topics to people who, like the Valentines, wore an air of prosperity and suggested only the successful side of life. Viewed in this light, Mrs. Valentine's fine dresses, whose Splendour and variety it was the family custom to condemn as out of taste, became but the fitting environment of a woman who marched through life in a sort of triumphal procession, conquering its difficulties, seizing its opportunities, and drinking its cup of pleasure to the dregs.The family party was supplemented by a few outsiders, Old friends of Sir Adrian and his mother, and traditional visitors at Huntsham. Dr. Crucible, the curator of a Government museum, had always for years past begun his summer holiday at Huntsham, and enjoyed no part of it SO well. It was his recognised function to keep Lady Heriot supplied with new books and fresh gossip, and to add a spice to the talk around her tea-table by acid drops of sarcasm, and apophthegms, whose burthen was, for the most part, the surpassing folly of the human race.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.