Excerpt from The Three Brothers, Vol. 3 of 3 Alice severn was very innocent and very young, - just over sixteen, - a child to all intents and pur poses, - as everybody thought around her. Old Welby, who had taken to meddling in the pa drona's affairs, with that regard which the friends of a woman who is alone feel themselves entitled to display for her interests, had been pressing very earnestly upon Mrs. Severn's attention the noces sity of preparing henchild, who had an evident and remarkable talent, to exercise it in public. 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.