Time's Revenges, Vol. 1 of 3 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Time's Revenges, Vol. 1 of 3 He did not want a feudal castle, or he would have had one. He wanted simply a country gentleman's house of the most unexceptionable type and character, and he found it in the neighbourhood of Heydon Hay, which, as all men should know, stands in the very heart of the English Midlands. The Abbey, for so the house was called, was but newly vacated by the Jessops, an ancient and honourable household, brought to untimely grief by injudicious speculation. It stood in the midst of a well-wooded park, at a distance of some three or four miles from its nearest county neighbour, and from its roof was visible the height of Beacon Hargate and the more distant hills of Quarrymore. All about it lay cultivated and prosperous farmlands, with here and there a homestead, built of that mellow-coloured red brick of which modern builders seem to have lost the secret. 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.