Excerpt from The Heiress and Her Lovers, Vol. 2 of 3: A Novel A dash under Morgan and both, you see, observed Aunt Mary, when Mr. Ver don showed her the letter. No doubt, no doubt; I daresay they are both glad to have her safe out of their way, said Mr. Verdon. Me poor girl; I can't say I feel glad to think she will be married to that old Earl; what good will all his places and parks do her? Just help to turn her head more and more, and make her forget her own kith and kin and all she ought to love, it will - and lead her into no end 0' mischief. Well, well, there's no use in chafing against the bit. I suppose we shall all have to go over for the wedding she will want to have a grand to do, with rows of powdered footmen, that don't care whether she was going to be hung orv. 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.