Eltham House (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Ward, Mrs. Humphry) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Eltham House How far away seem the beginnings of this book! It was in the spring of 1914 - the last spring of the old world, when one could still listen to the thrushes singing, and watch the blooming of the gorse and the hawthorn without that tragic intervening sense which now oppresses us of the veil of death and suffering "spread upon the face of all peoples" - that I was turning over one day some of the books about Holland House and its Circle, which stand in a favorite corner of my working-room. And it idly occurred to me to wonder what would have happened to Lord and Lady Holland if they had walked in - with their story - upon the London world of to-day - or rather yesterday. Lord Holland, in 1796, ran away with the wife of Sir Godfrey Webster, who, with difficulty and after some time, was bribed to divorce her by the surrender of her fortune. Then Lord Holland and Lady Webster were married, and entered upon their long and royal reign in Holland House. Lord Holland never seems to have suffered any social or political penalty whatever. Socially, he was one of the best liked of men, and never ceased to be so; politically, no price to be paid for what he had done was ever asked of him. 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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