Excerpt from A Snapt Gold Ring, Vol. 2 of 2 It is inconvenient, as our stage-director had more than once experienced, to put a falsehood upon paper, since it is then possible to explicitly refute it. But it is easy to -circulate false rumours in conversation and at a watering place the rumour that is not in print flies faster than the rumour that is. Mr. Finsbury was a young man of honest family he was well educated, and was in easy circumstances. Mr. Andrews accordingly started the report that he was the son of a nobleman who had disinherited him. This was a tempting bait, and Scarborough was expected to take it. But a still better one was in store. 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.