Excerpt from The Ladies Lindores, Vol. 2 of 3 Lord millefleurs had given his family a great deal of trouble - not in the old-fashioned way of youth ful folly or dissipation, which is too well known in every age, the beaten road upon which young men tread down the hearts of their progenitors, and their own best hopes, in all the wantonness of short-sighted self-indulgence. The heir of the house of Lavender had gone wrong in an entirely new-fashioned and nineteenth-century way. He was devoured by curi osity, not of the modes of pleasure, but about those other ways of living which the sons of dukes in general have no knowledge of. He got tired of be ing a duke's son, and it seemed to him that life lay outside the range of those happy valleys in which he was born. He had gone to America, that home vol. II. A. 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.