Excerpt from A Full and True Account of the Wonderful Mission of Earl Lavender, Which Lasted One Night and One Day: With a History of the Pursuit of Earl Lavender and Lord Brumm by Mrs. Scamler and Maud Emblem Lastly, a procession of Flagellants marched through Lisbon in 1820, the year of the suppression of the Spanish Inquisition, and a year of revolution in both the old and the new worlds. The Flagellant Society to which the Lady of the Veil introduced Earl Lavender may therefore be taken as a sign of the times - a sign of an age of effete ideals. At least, the ex istence of such a sect among the wealthy classes is a proof of the existence of wide spread contempt of the great commonplaces' of life - love, marriage, and the rearing of children. In this some will not be slow to detect the results of long-continued leisure and luxury; and, indeed, when a class is exempt for generations from suffering and toil - the lot prepared for the race from the beginning - it is not to be wondered. 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.