Excerpt from Comin Thro the Rye, Vol. 2 of 3: A Novel Exceeding love that I knew for them of yore. I can even get over a gate without feeling any over-mastering impulse to vault or leap it. I can see Pepper taking an ecstatic roll in the grass without straight way longing to cast myself down and roll too. The kitchen-garden has lost some of its charm in my eyes, for, thanks to my being so old, other affairs than gooseberries and currants occupy my mind, very much against my will. I am the eldest daughter at home now, and obliged to mind my morals and manners to a maddening extent for every sin of omission and commission of my brothers and sisters is laid to my charge, and said to be the fruit of my example. It is dismal at the Manor House now so many are away. Jack is in London. He is going to be a barrister, and I call it mean of him; for if he had only elected to be a fat gentleman farmer, I could have gone and lived with him in a little house, and been as happy Well! Brothers never love their sisters quite as their sisters love them. Milly has been woo'd an' married an' a. 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.