Excerpt from The Birthright, Vol. 3 of 3: And Other Tales The gardens extending in the rear of the house were still more decidedly in the Italian taste; having clipped evergreens and avenues of pyramidal yews, which, combined with the inter vening statues, imparted to them something of the air of a cemetery. There were fountains, too, which, in the memory of man, had been never known to play -the marble basons being, if possible, still greener than the grim visages of fauns and dryads standing forlorn on their dilapidated pedestals amid the neglected alleys. 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.