Rose D'Albret Volume 3, No. 1; Or, Troublous Times, a Romance (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1844 Excerpt: ...palliating errors that he had committed, sometimes by acknowledging them frankly, and lamenting the infatuation that produced them, sometimes by finding out excellent good reasons for doing things which had a great deal belter been left undone Mary and Isabella had been walking in the par before breakfast, talking of all those things which young ladies find to converse about when they have not met for some time; and Sir John, at once aware that his niece's eye must h-w marked Uie destruction going on among the wM trees, asked her in the moat deliberate tone in the world, if she had seen the improvements he was making. Mary Clifford replied "No," and looked at tier cousin as if for explanation, and then Sir John exclaimed, "God bless my soul, did you not see the alley I am cutting? It will make the most beautiful vista in the world. First you will go round from the house by the back of the wood, slowly mounting the hill, by what we call the Broad Walk, and then when you have reached the top, you will have a clear view down through a sort of glade, with the old trees on jour right and left hand, over the clumps of young firs in the bottom, catching the stream here and there, and having the park-wall quite concealed, till the eye. passing over the meadows, just rests upon Ta/ningham church, and then running on, gets a view of your own place, Steenham, looking like a white speck on the Bide of the hill, and the prospect is closed by the high grounds beyond. My dear Mary, it is the greatest improvement that ever was made--we will go and see it." Now the real truth was, that Sir John Slingsby, some four or five months before, had very much wanted three thousand pounds, and he bail determined to convert a certain number of his trees into b...