Excerpt from Mornings at Matlock, Vol. 2 of 3 The Major was drowsy or musing, perhaps planning how best to carry on a campaign against the widow's heart and hand. Sir Julian was reported to be writing letters in another room happy man, to have any thing to occupy him. The ladies sat in solemn silence, engaged in the manufacture of some of the nick-nackeries on which the fair sex so often delight to expend their time and their ingenuity. The very lap dogs basked in the sun, and, as the newspaper paragraph-makers say, lazily sank into the arms of Morpheus. 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.