Excerpt from Bitter Sweets, Vol. 2 of 3: A Love Story In good truth, from the day that Paul Massey married Anna Lee, he had given himself up to a life of devotion to her and all that was good. And yet Winford Barns was a frequent visitor at Denby Rise, and would startle the servants with oaths, and coarse jests. Mrs Massey had once, in her affectionately frank manner, asked her husband why he did not give up the acquaintance Of a man who seemed so wicked and SO vulgar. This question was the only one that had ever elicited from her husband anything like a command. You must not ask that question again, Anna dear, said Paul very seriously; I am under great Obligations to him, and he must come here when he pleases. 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.