Excerpt from An Old Country House, Vol. 2 of 3: A Novel She could not speak coherently - but when her uncle, who had stood forth aghast to meet her, took her in his arms - she clung to him trembling and shiver ing, and pointed with gesticulations of terror towards the door. All was confusion and dismay. Every one looked into the other's face as if to ask what had happened - and what was to be done? 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.