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Excerpt from The Heritage of Langdale, Vol. 1 of 3: A Novel A Dull November afternoon was lowering over the wild open country and unsheltered coast-line of a southern shire nearly a hundred and sixty years ago. Long stretches of flat cornfields, rich in the evidence of man's work and Nature's bounty, now beautify what were then wild marshy sands, with a melancholy growth of dull green bent towards the sea, and a sprinkling heather and wild flowers nearer terra-firma. 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.