Excerpt from Mothers and Daughters, Vol. 3 of 3: A Tale of the Year 1830 Meanwhile Lady Maria, who saw that it was equally her personal interest to get rid of her elder daughters by matrimony, and to hug her youngest to her heart in single blessedness, disposed herself for the eager prosecution of this twofold measure. Like a skilful general, she addressed herself in the first instance to the numeration and disposition of her forces; cal culating with callous selfishness those deduc tions of killed and wounded which Time the general enemy - had gradually made in the sum total of her London acquaintance. Her aladyship had now perambulated the thorny ways of the world, for more than fifty years. 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.