Sir Jasper's Tenant: A Novel
M. E. Braddon
Paperback
(Forgotten Books, Jan. 24, 2018)
Excerpt from Sir Jasper's Tenant: A NovelThere were many versions of this story, which may have been somewhat legendary in its character.. It related to a noble race which was extinct, and to a time in which men wore fantastically-frizzed periwigs upon their heads, and carried slim rapiers at their sides, always conveniently ready for any little impromptu in the way of an assassination in the badly-lighted streets, or a duel to the death in some lonely chamber with locked doors.If you had been an amateur artist on the look-out for a subject for a water-color draw ing, scarcely any thing could have been better for you than the Hermitage, lying low in a deep hollow of Scarsdale Wood, with trackless depths of fern stretching away to the left of its grim walls, and a still, black pool lying to the right of the old ivy-grown gate surmounted by a stone escutcheon, and marking the boun dary of a garden that was no more.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.