Excerpt from George Hern, Vol. 1 of 3: A Novel Winding round the south side of the market-place, past the Hanging Sword, whereat the horses, with back-turned ears, seemed on the alert for instructions to stop, the carriage clattered down South Cliff Street to Battery Green. In a few moments it had grated along the drive of Castle House, and drew up at the front-door, with a graceful slope of lawn and myrtle-bed between it and the ancient guns that fringed the public path 'upon the cliff edge. 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.