The Lord of the Manor, or Lights and Shades of Country Life, Vol. 2 of 2

Excerpt from The Lord of the Manor, or Lights and Shades of Country Life, Vol. 2 of 2The baronet, family, and suite, had enjoyed themselves at Beechwood eight months, ere one glimpse of the fact reached his family in Westminster.Not one word of it, until one day, and then it crept out as 'does the first mouse after the cat's demise, just at the oddest time possible. And the place too was, perhaps, one of all others in which a metropolitan friend of the once Robert Kent, the brewery cobbler, would least expect any information as to that gentleman's rural pursuits.Honest, good-hearted Bob, he was always called by his London friends, but we are not sure whether he has enjoyed equal fortune with those round the preserves of the manor.The odd place, hinted at, was Mr. Mellow's spirited establishment - the dram-vaults: a house, it is hoped, well known to the reader, if not, our attempts at the graphic have been but poorly appreciated, or entirely misunderstood.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.