The Argosy, Vol. 49 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Argosy, Vol. 49 A Family party was gathered round the drawing-room fire in the house of Major Halliwell: a handsome residence, situated in the village of Seaford, some twenty miles´ distance from London. It was a fine, warm evening in the beginning of September, and there was little need of a fire; but the Major had passed some of his days in India, and always took to evening fires before anyone else thought of them. The Major was the chief representative of the name and House of Halliwell. A noble and renowned and loyal house it had been in its palmy days; but the earldom had become extinct in the early time of George the Third, and its descendants had since been dwindling down in the scale of grandeur. The Major´s eldest girl was named after one who had been a heroine in her generation - the Lady Hester Halliwell, sister of the last Lord Halliwell. The Lady Hester had refused to marry, but had won fame and love for her good and noble and charitable deeds. Her portrait was reverently preserved in the Major´s drawing-room, and its face certainly bore a remarkable resemblance to that of her namesake, the present Hester. Major Halliwell was a good-natured, merry man, who had made money in India, had sold out of the King´s service, and come home to enjoy it. Then the Major married. He is a man, you see, of about six-and-sixty now, whilst his children are young. 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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