Excerpt from A Noble Woman, Vol. 2 of 3 Proaching marriage spoke disrespectfully of December as a dark, dismal, dirty month that beyond all other cold and cheerless months was ill-suited to Hymeneal usages - the December day, on Which Hercules Kingsford the Younger took Elizabeth Clayton for better and for worse, occasioned pleasant disappointment. One of those exceptional days which in ourcapri cions climate deride the seasons and flout the predictions of the weatherwise, it possessed no one of those disagreeable qualities which usually characterize the last month of the year. It was neither wet, nor raw, nor gloomy. Born in white mist and cradled on hoar-frost, it gave promise of coming brightness ere dawn had fully con vol. II. B. 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.