Excerpt from Family Fortunes: A Domestic Story Without calculation, one might almost say without reflection, she had given up her youth and early womanhood for others. Her father's death had left her the sole prop of the Old home. Before that time, one brother, bright and strong, had been laid in his grave among the graves Of his forbears, in the ancient burial-place surrounding the ruined chapel. Her only sister was married and widowed, and lived with her boy in a poverty-stricken northern town, having, as Barby put it, to fight sair for her ain hand.' 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.