Excerpt from Births, Deaths, and Marriages, Vol. 3 of 3 I have already said, that it was my intention at some particular period of this history to let the characters of the drama speak for them selves. That period has arrived; and I know no better method of enlightening the reader as to what has occurred during the past two years and a-half, and the now actual state of affairs, men and things, as regards the Mortimer family, than putting at his disf posal the contents of the letter-box of Sad grove Hall, as they were prepared for despatch on a particular day in the month of April, when a select party was assembled under its hospitable roof for the purpose of passing the Easter holidays. 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.