Excerpt from The Rose of Ashurst, Vol. 1 of 2 My father, an easy-going person, inheritor of a small estate; enjoying, likewise, a moderate reversion from the fortune of my mother, and having only one child, namely, myself had been content to vegetate upon his pos sessions without endeavouring in any way to increase or improve them. Satisfied with the persuasion that what had been enough for himself would be enough for his son. 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.