Excerpt from Tie and Trick: A Melodramatic Story The breakfast hour at Wrottsley was an expansive ten for the community at large, although those intending to hunt or Shoot had to be up betimes, and had disappeared before the majority Of the ladies, at all events, gathered in the dining room. A large, low, one-storied house, with a porte cochere entering upon a double hall in its centre - the outer and smaller hall was decorated with many a head, trophies Of the prowess Of Sir Jasper in Scotch deer-forests in his younger days, and divers other victims Of his bow and spear in the guise Of fox-brushes, stuffed birds, &c., and was also strewn with the litter Of rough overcoats, hats, caps, and walking-sticks, that the hall Of all country houses presents. The inner was very lofty, with a gallery running all round it, and exhibited nothing but its dark-polished oak-boards. From this hall doors Opened in all directions: on the ground floor to the drawing-rooms, billiard-room, dining-room, On the gallery to the bed-rooms, lying on either side. In short, the halls formed the centre Of the house, while the rooms lay in the wings on either hand. 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.