Excerpt from The Hope of the House He had come out here to think, to grapple with a problem which was not solvable, whichever way One looked at it, save at some grievous cost. He had to take a de cision vitally concerning not only his future, but that Of his only brother, still a child. When - how long ago it 'eemed - his tutor had broken to him the sudden passing away of his kindly, easy-going father, he had thought, With juvenile exaggeration, that he had touched the ex treme of sorrow. Now he realized, and was ashamed Of himself for the knowledge, that the side issues of the dis aster contained far greater elements of misfortune. 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.