Beneath the Wheels, Vol. 3 of 3 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Beneath the Wheels, Vol. 3 of 3 The time at Crehylls was a time of sorrow and dismay; hence it was easy for Lydia, when the evening fell, to creep out unperceived. Very small restraint had hitherto been placed on her movements; she was not a child who had been cramped in a nursery, or confined in a school-room. Free to come and go as she would in the great castle, and living her daily life with her father and mother, not with nursemaids, she had acquired a calmness and self-possession, and curious, unchildish self-reliance, not often found among the children of the rich. The street Arab has it always, and the little ones of the poor, who go forth with tranquil courage to earn their bread at an age when the infant rich are helpless, have it likewise. Yet Lydia's self-reliance differed somewhat from theirs; they have the dignity and the pride of labour, she had the less worthy but more imposing dignity of race and position. 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.