Excerpt from Cloister and the Hearth What mean you, Richart? Who is more thought of than you? Stay, have I spoken sharp to you? Have I been unkind to you? Never that I know oi; and if you had, you should never hear of it from me. Mother, said Richart gravely, but the tear was in his eye, it all lies in a word, and nothing can change my mind. There will be one mouth less for you to feed. 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.