Excerpt from Coast Review, Vol. 13: January, 1878 Londoners as those of a Hindoo or a Hot tentot, marked him out at once for the de rision of the street boys. How he stood agape before the shops of mock jewelry, or under the drenching waterspouts; and was splashed by drays, or jostled into the ken nels by the packs of passing porters. Sharpers, sore from being lashed at the cart's tail, obtained his confidence in the guise of men of rank, and the painted women of the town were introduced to him as countesses and maids of honor. It was fortunate if, after enduring some weeks of spoliation and ill-concealed derision, he could return to his estate without having left a considerable portion of his patrimony in the hands of his plunderers. The yorkshire squire. 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.