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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. THE TWO PRISONERS. Miss Beverley was not far from the truth in assuming that Nugent's ancestors had been great people in their day. They had owned the land which he now rented, and a great many broad acres besides. Once an old manorial residence rose in varied but picturesque proportions upon the gentle slope of that wooded hill-side, towards which the avenue of elms, already described, formed a stately approach. Some heavy fines, inflicted for political offences under the agreeable regime of the Stewarts, followed up by an inroad of the sea, which carried havoc over the low lands in the district, had shaken the stability and curtailed the resources of the family. The property was burdened with mortgage after mortgage, until the owners were little better than collectors of rent for the benefit of expectant creditors. When Nugent's father succeeded to the possessions of his ancestors, he found himself nothing better than a penniless gentleman, surrounded by an empty pageant of hill and dale, rich meadow and productive arable, the rent of which he never touched, and a fine oldhouse decaying for want of repairs, which he could scarcely afford to keep warm and habitable. Early scenes of anxiety, and of bitter humiliation, had somewhat soured his mind, but at the same time infused into him a wholesome austerity and practical vigour suitable to his circumstances. His great aim and secret ambition was by degrees, however slowly, yet at some tune or other, to pay off the debts which crippled and crushed the estate, and to come forth once more an independent man. This object filled his whole soul. He had seen the debasing misery of debt, the petty shifts, the effort to keep up a show of luxury and ease, the abject dependence on unworthy confidants and auxiliaries, th...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781459096479
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 60
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1459096479
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 127 gr

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