Excerpt from Manch The dignified reserve of his manner, and his reputa tion for high larning, as well as for unflinching integ rity, caused him to be invested with the authority of a kind of judge, and he was appealed to to settle all disputes and give judgment on all important matters occurring in the community. On only one point did he show weak ness - his treatment of his daughter. He at the same time indulged and neglected her, until it was no mar vel that she grew up warm-hearted, passionately fond of her father, but impulsive and willful. But utterly as he neglected the improvement of her mind, he seemed to build hopes of some kind upon the girl, and often spoke of sending her back to the States to be educated, after a while, seeming strangely unconscious of the fact that she was fast growing up, and was no longer a little child; and it was therefore a most unlocked-for shock to him when the girl, in her fifteenth year, married into a family that was contemned and looked down upon in the settle ment. Border society is by no means nice or difficult of access; but when it chooses to ostracize it does so more effectually and terribly than can be done by the leaders of the haut month. 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.