Publisher's Synopsis
In Connection With The De Willoughby Claim is a novel written by Frances Hodgson Burnett. The story revolves around a young woman named Cecilia De Willoughby, who is the only surviving member of her family. She has been living in poverty and obscurity for years until a lawyer informs her that she is the rightful heir to a large estate in England. However, there are several other claimants to the estate who will stop at nothing to get their hands on it. As Cecilia travels to England to claim her inheritance, she is met with a series of obstacles and challenges. She must navigate the treacherous waters of high society and deal with the scheming of those who wish to steal her inheritance. Along the way, she meets several interesting characters, including a handsome young man named Sir John, who becomes her ally in the fight for her rightful inheritance. The novel is a thrilling tale of love, betrayal, and intrigue set against the backdrop of 19th-century England. It is a story of a young woman's journey to reclaim what is rightfully hers and the obstacles she must overcome to do so. With its engaging plot, well-drawn characters, and vivid descriptions of the English countryside, In Connection With The De Willoughby Claim is a must-read for fans of historical fiction and romance.1899. The book begins: High noon at Talbot�������s Crossroads, with the mercury standing at ninety-eight in the shade-though there was not much shade worth mentioning in the immediate vicinity of the Crossroads post-office, about which, upon the occasion referred to, the few human beings within sight and sound were congregated. There were trees enough a few hundred yards away, but the post-office stood boldly and unflinchingly in the blazing sun. The roads crossing each other stretched themselves as far as the eye could follow them, the red clay transformed into red dust which even a ordinarily lively imagination might have fancied was red hot. The shrill, rattling cry of the grasshoppers, hidden in the long yellow sedge-grass and drouth-smitten corn, pierced the stillness now and then with a suddenness startling each time it broke forth, because the interval between each of the pipings was given by the hearers to drowsiness or heated unconscious naps. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
