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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 edition. Excerpt: ... light in which she lived and moved. The first meeting over, all embarrassment ceased. Wilfred showed so much kind, brotherly interest in all that concerned Lilian, that she was soon perfectly at ease, and much enjoyed showing him the many beauties of her home. Saturday, the day fixed for Lilian's first dinner-party, was also the first morning of Lord Rossendale's appearance in the hunting-field since his marriage. The meet was a distant one, and he left home shortly after daybreak, and did not return till dusk. Lilian, with Mrs. Lester and Wilfred, spent the day in a long exploring walk through the woods. The weather was bright and sunny, and the sharp wind of the preceding day had dried the ground, clearing it, in the open spaces, from the fallen leaves, which lay in drifted heaps among the underwood. To all three, the walk was a great enjoyment--great to Lilian, to whom the beauties of her home had the charm of novelty and the higher charm of possession; greater to Mrs. Lester, fresh from the dark and dreary streets of London, now buried under its winter blanket of fog; and greatest to Wilfred, whose poet-heart received from the silent influences of nature a joy known to few--a joy of which he was intensely susceptible, but which he did not often share. "Is there a cottage about here?" asked Wilfred, as they reached a glade in the forest where many paths crossed each other, on some of which the marks of feet were evident. "I am not sure," replied Lilian. "I think I see smoke among the trees." "It is the gamekeeper's house," said Mrs. Lester. "Mrs. Ramsay is an old friend of mine--was, I should say--for she can hardly remember me, it is so long since I have been here." "Let us pay...
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