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Excerpt from Hulse House, Vol. 1: A Novel
But I am not wishing. To speak of the present. I am going back to about thirty years ago, when I was riding through a quiet, pretty village in the north of England. The road on one side was bounded by a very high wall, which shut out a large wooded park from the street-like village. I felt sad as I looked at the grand, massy groups of forest trees in the park, and just saw the old gray chimneys of the large, gloomy house, rising above the grove that surrounded it. I had no reason for the feeling, that I could define, and I can only imagine it prophetical. Perhaps it was one of those sensations which are now called mesmeric influences! When I reached the inn, and stopped to bait my horse, I was told that this high wall had been built by the present owner, who, though young. 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.
