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Excerpt from Dumps For fully five minutes I strive to listen, and then something stronger than my will overcomes my good resolution, my thoughts stray from the preacher, my eyes follow, and both are fixed upon my lady. She is not the only occupant of the big pew. By her side sits her son - her only child - who although little more than my own age - a mere boy - is the present baronet, the owner of Sharrows Park and House, Sir Arthur Deloraine. But he has no interest for me. Compared with his mother he is a very everyday person, good-looking, but not different to others I have seen; while she - she has bright dark eyes, so piercing and yet so soft, a delicate skin, with cheeks of shell-like pink, and hair of silvery white, gathered high and rolled back from her face. As, entranced, I gaze upon her, I conjure up visions of the days of romance; when until noble deeds were done, and valiant acts per formed, fair ladies would not listen, nor permit their hearts to melt. 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.