Excerpt from It Was a Lover and His Lass, Vol. 2 of 3 To her already peculiar character. 'i must do my best for the daughter. I did not do it for the mother, ' she acquired a habit of saying when any other career was suggested to her. She did not feel quite sure that she was not her father's elder sister, so confusing were their relations. He was broken down with grief and disappointment, and she took charge of him at once, ' and of his home. It would perhaps be going too far to say that this was the reason why she did not marry. Had any great love arisen in her heart, no doubt Margaret would, like other people, have considered it her duty to Obey its dictates; but, when suitors to whom she was indifferent came, Miss Murray metaphoric ally pushed them aside Out of her path, with a curt intimation that she had no time to think of such nonsense. Miss Jean, who was of a sentimental turn, had not so easily escaped the common dangers of youth, but she did so in a more romantic way, poor lady, by loving, un fortunately, a young hero who had not a penny, and who died in an Obscure Indian battle when she was little more than twenty. This was shortly after the time when the infant Lilias was thrown upon her sisters' hands, and it was. 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.