Emancipation a Woman´s Question Considered in Story (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Emancipation a Woman´s Question Considered in Story Pride of family, born in the hoar past, dead but yesterday, has fallen pitifully to decay among many of those in whose veins there is yet the strain of good Norman or Plantagenet blood. It is an irony of life that of the great material changes that have taken place in the history of Sussex, none has been so marked as the deterioration that has attended many of the county families. Names that were great when England was in the making may be found today among the peasantry: Pierrepoint, Poynings, Culpeper, Lewknor, Challoner, De la Borde, often corrupted, are the only evidence of those houses´ former fame and power. While the names exist, the vocations of their descendants have sunk to lowliness. A Du Deney has been found among the Southdown shepherds, a Lewknor follows the plough, and the last of the Culpepers, who tends the farm, would, if told of his far-away progenitors´ omniscience, pause to wonder mildly at what he heard, and then again drive his spade deep into the soil. Of such fallen fortunes were the Woodhams of Halnaker. They lived almost in poverty: their life was one of eternal Lenten days, but, true to their blood, they wore the affliction proudly. Tradition was discreet on the point of the family´s immigration, which was supposed to have occurred centimes back, in the days when lance and battle-axe asserted men´s right to ownership. Underbreath rumours alleged that the family name, registered De Wodehame, was recorded in "Battel Abbey Roll"; it was certain that ancestors, though not remote, had owned broad acres of surrounding fat land. The immediately preceding head had lived beyond what the receipts of an already decreased estate justified, but daily had afforded a clean white cravat; had been accustomed to hurl his jackboots at his servant, when their polish fell below the demands of his fastidious taste; and had possessed a family vault in the parish churchyard, the filling of which was ultimately completed by his own shell. 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.
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