Excerpt from Lost for Love, Vol. 1 of 3: A Novel For a youth with such yearnings, Long Sutton was not large enough. Samuel Olliv'ant well-nigh up rooted the scanty wisp Of hair which encircled his bald crown when, after walking the hospitals and going through the usual curriculum, his son told him that he would return no more to the sleepy little Devon shire town, where his race had abided and thriven from generation to generation. His father might dis pose Of the good old family practice to whomsoever he would. He, Cuthbert, would remain in London - had indeed been already elected parish-doctor in a populous district by Bethnal-green. The pay was of the poorest, he wrote cheerfully, but the expe rience would be immense. 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.