Excerpt from An Old Family Legend, or One Husband and Two Marriages, Vol. 3 of 4: A Romance Thus-sanctioned bv the approvance of the earl, sir Everard was unremitting in his endeavours to attract Matilda's no tice. She did not dare to treat her fa ther's will with so much open contumely as to remain in the entire privacy of her own apartment; and the moment she en tered a gallery, or strayed forth on the ramparts, the sedulous sir Everard was in variably at hand. The recurrence ofthis detestgd circumstance was so continual. 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.