Excerpt from Three Feathers, Vol. 1 of 3: A Novel It was, indeed, a nice house, - a quaint, old-fashioned, strongly-built place, that had' withstood the western gales for some hun dred and fifty years. And it was set amid beautiful trees, and it overlooked a pictu resque little valley, and from this garden terrace in front of it you could catch a glimpse of a tiny harbour on the Cornish coast, with its line of blue water passing out' through the black rocks to the sea beyond. 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.