Excerpt from Nearer and Dearer: A Tale Out of School Hall. You are introduced to most respectable people, my gentle reader! For the first speaker is a baronet, and the second is the brother of a lord; the one is Sir Charles Chatterton, the other is the Honourable Frederick Arlington. 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.