Excerpt from The Poor Cousin, Vol. 1 of 3: A Novel Such were the persons, and' the state of things at Glandale, when, one evening, as the rector and his wife sat together in their little parlour, enjoying the pure summer air as it entered at the open window, bearing the delicate perfume of their favourite roses, Mrs. Herbert suddenly uttered an exclamation of surprise at seeing the village postman enter the garden-gate - for rela tions they had few, and correspondents still fewer. The good rector had just carefully wiped his spectacles, and replaced them in their leathern case, (for he had been reading to his wife a funeral sermon, that was to be preached on the ensuing sabbath, ) but these he hastily drew out again, and prepared to peruse the large. 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.