Excerpt from An Inheritance Besides, she might not have been first lady, had she gone. The minister's wife - no, a country minister's wife, Miss Barbara assured herself, could hardly take precedence of her, with the minister more or less dependent on her good will. But the doctor's wife - ah! Everyone was dependent on the good will of the doctor, that Viceroy of life and death; and Dr. Donner was a man of power. She remembered seeing him when breaking a horse for her uncle, a vast black brute of a Bellerophon, while she was a girl visiting at Woodsedge. Someone said that now he was content with horses other people had broken, for driving about the country on his prac tice that went far and wide among the hills. She had seen him occasionally since then, at her brother's house when he had come down about her cousin's affairs, or about his own, from time to time. 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.