Excerpt from Lady Rose's Daughter: A Novel So saying - ou a February evening a good many years ago - an elderly gentleman, in evening dress, flung himself out of his cab, which had just stopped before a house in Bruton Street, and hastily went to meet a young man, who was at the same moment stepping out of another hansom, a little further down the pavement. The pleasure in the older man's voice rang clear, and the younger met him with an equal cordiality, expressed perhaps through a manner more leisurely and restrained. 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.