Excerpt from The Old Hall, or Our Hearth and Homestead, Vol. 2 of 3 To this idol, and from everything else, my friend turned hls earthly devotion. I know little, perhaps nothing, of love in the sense of its purity but my belief is, that there was more of the scorching heat of passion in the feeling than the affection of a more sober judg ment. However this might be, he loved her well if J calons to almost an'in sane degree, he seldom permitted her to be out of his sight, and, with the exception of myself, never'allo'wed anybody to visit them at home. Thus by many he was regarded as a love-sick, uxorious simpleton, and by a few a man in the incipient stage of madness. Within three months of their marriage, the revolutionary war broke out in America. 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.