Excerpt from Army Society: Life in a Garrison Town; A Discursive Story Not unreasonably, people thought and said it would have been a splendid match for the daughter of a country attorney, whose practice was not of the best as far as the social position of his clients went, and who was known to do a good deal in the money-lending line, and on the Sixty per cent. Principle. But alack, alas, for the tide which must be taken at the flood Polly, and moreover Polly's papa and mamma, wished for a higher, stronger, fuller tide than served just then in the person of the Honourable Eliot Cardella, - they wished for what was, in fact, quite a matrimonial spring tide; and in waiting for it Polly missed both. 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.