Excerpt from Face to Face Nor had this been Evelyn's first offence. Ever since childhood she had shown a tendency to disre gard precedent and authority very distasteful to her parents. She had early taken the stand that it was her only brother's part to fetch her slippers rather than hers to fetch his, a proposition aptly defined by that young gentleman, with the applause of the rest of the family, as savoring of radicalism, a word which to a Pimlico was fraught with unspeakable horror. They were one and all, from the aforesaid peer of the realm to the most insignificant cadet of the stock, staunch Tories, whom nothing could shake in their allegiance to party principles, and who still grieved at heart over the disestablishment of the Irish Church and the passage of the Reform Bill. To say that they viewed with distrust the innovating Spirit of the times would be a very mild statement as compared with the truth, and there was no one among them more stable in the profession of his faith than the Honorable Mortimer, who would, if he could have had his way, have banished Mr. Glad stone from the national councils as an enemy to the permanence of law and order and when in the bosom of his family he gave vent, as was often the case, to the vehemence of these feelings, he found an admiring chorus in six of his daughters. 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.