Excerpt from The Foresters: A Tale of Domestic Life It is indeed difficult to say which is the most finished character in the Foresters - the beautiful, gentle, and spotless Lucy, - the strong-minded intellectual, and afflicted Michael, the patient, suffering and virtuous Agnes, - the prodigal and lawless Abel, - the poor scholar, the mild May Morrison, or the noble Lady Of the Hirst. All of these are true and touching pictures of life, and yet so exquisitely finished are the smaller person ages in the drama, that any attempt in assigning to either a precedence in merit, would be a nugatory and hypercritical task. 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.