Excerpt from Joshua Marvel, Vol. 1 of 3 The bees in the neighbourhood being common and poor, it was natural that the neighbourhood itself should partake of the character of its in habitants. But, common and poor as it was, it was not too common nor too poor for love to dwell in it. Love did reside there; not oa in the hive of the Marvels, but in hundreds of other hives, tenanted by the humblest of humble bees. 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.