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Excerpt from Progress and Prejudice, Vol. 1 of 3 Many people asserted, on the, other hand, that the old family mansion would have passed into the hands of usurers and Jews with the rest of the property, but for a strict entail upon his heirs male. This, however, could scarcely be the case. For' when, after ten long years of expectation, little Amy made her appearance, so far from lamenting, as was generally ex pected, their disappointment of a son and heir, the parents welcomed their little girl as the greatest of blessings. 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.