Excerpt from The Village Artist Fitzpatrick fell in love with when he asked her to marry him and go off to the city. She probably never would have come back to the village only that the old homestead was left her, and - well, she was obliged to. Fitz patrick had died, and there wasn't overly much left, what with theatres, and concerts, and stylish clothes, and she was glad to fall back on the old home and a cheap place to live in. 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.