Excerpt from Grasp Your Nettle, Vol. 1 of 3: A Novel "Well, Aura, this is good news!" said Mrs. Escott, the wife of the Rector of Clive Yale, bustling into the drawing-room with a broad smile upon her round, red face. "Croft is really taken at last; I am so glad I cannot tell you." "So am I, mamma; it has been so long empty, and it is such a lovely place," said Aura, smiling too from sympathy. "Do you know who has taken it?" 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.