Excerpt from Orley Farm, Vol. 2 During these days Peregrine Orme - though he was in love up to his very chin, seriously in love, acknowl edging this matter to himself openly, pulling his hair in the retirement of his bed room, and resolving that he would do that which he had hitherto in life always been successful in doing - ask, namely, boldly for that he wanted sorely - Peregrine Orme, I say, though he was in this condition, did not in these days neglect his hunting. A proper attendance upon the proceedings of the H. H. Was the only duty which he had hitherto undertaken in return for all that his grandfather had done for him, and I have no doubt that he conceived that he was doing a duty in going hither and thither about the county to their most distant meets. At this period of the present season it happened that Noningsby was more central to the proceedings of the hunt than The Cleeve, and therefore he was enabled to think that he was remaining away from home chiefly on business. One one point, however, he had stoutly come to a resolu tion. That question should be asked of Madeline Staveley before he returned to his grandfather's house. 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.