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Excerpt from The Novels of Rosa Nouchette Carey
Malcolm Herrick used his Englishman's right Of grum' bling to a large extent; with a sort of bitter and acrid humility, he would accuse himself Of having missed his vocation and his rightful heritage, Of being neither fish, flesh, nor good red herring; nevertheless his post for the last two years had pleased him well: he was connected with a certain large literary society which gave his legal wits plenty of scope. In his leisure hours he wrote moderately well-expressed papers on all sorts of social subjects with a pithy raciness and command Of language that excited a good deal of comment. Herrick was a clever fellow, people said; he would make his mark when he was Older, and had got rid Of his cranks but all the same he was not understood by the youth Of his generation. The Fossil, as they called him at Lincoln, was hardly modern enough for their taste; he was a survival Of the mediaeval age - he took life too gravely, and gave himself the airs Of a patriarch. 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.
