Excerpt from The Countess and Gertrude, Vol. 2 of 4: Or, Modes of Discipline A servant came to fetch her: the distance did not exceed half a mile, and'she reached Lady Mary's 'in high an hour before her reason able dinner - time. She found. Her ladyship drestsi for she was too well bred to make 'even Gertrude wait, and too delicate to order her visitor into her: dressing room.. She was at the piano forte, from' which she rose to' receive her, and having almost acknowledged an obligation in seeing her drest' so entirely according to.her wishes, she said, 'you may, perhaps, wonder at finding an old Woman practising music; for my playing was really prac tieing: but mine is a life made up of little dra mas: they have all their plot and their moral. And I am forced to rehearse them, lest they. 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.