Excerpt from A Magnificent Young Man, Vol. 1: A Novel SO after the fatal day when Godfrey Bladens brook was found done to death by the hoofs of his own favourite hack, no one was surprised that he was found to have left a will naming his widow as his sole executor and the sole guardian of his only child, leaving her, in fact, queen regent over the Bladensbrook property, and over the last of the name. He had made no provision against his wife's marrying again, and Mrs. Bladensbrook's father was quick to notice it and to comment upon it. I shall never marry again, said Mrs. Bla densbrook quietly; all my interest'in life will be to bring up my son to be as worthy Of his name as his father was before him. Quite right, my dear, said Lord Pollington approvingly; I am very glad that you accept your responsibilities so thoroughly. They are responsibilities, and very grave ones, but you will be more than equal to them. In truth, Lord Pollington had always regarded the dead and gone Godfrey as a thor oughly good fellow who was as near an idiot as it was possible for an English gentleman to be; but of course there was no occasion to express that Opinion in plain words to his widow. 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.