Under One Roof: An Episode in a Family History
James Payn
Hardcover
(Forgotten Books, March 6, 2018)
Excerpt from Under One Roof: An Episode in a Family HistoryTo one who comes on Halcombe on a sudden from the lone moorland it seems as though the trees had been driven into it like sheep, from the country round, and all the flowers. It lies an oasis in the desert, fresh with foliage, and cool with verdure, and bright with blossom. There is nothing new or staring in the little village even the billiard-room at the Hall, built out by its preceding tenant, has already put on a decent garb of ivy which hides its modernness and for the most part all the houses are very Old. There are no new comers, and consequently no accommodation for them is needed. When a family grows too large for its residence its surplus numbers go forth into the world without and make dwellings for them selves elsewhere.A few hundred yards from the mansion there is the Manor Farm, almost coeval with it, and besides these two there is no house Of any pretensions - the rest are cottages, all the pro perty of the tenant of the Hall, Sir Robert Arden.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.