Excerpt from Stretton, Vol. 1 of 3: A Novel Such were the questions put to one another by a young pair of lovers, who watched her from beneath a plantation where they were innocently rambling. The young man said, That is a queer sight for a fellow courting, and the young woman said, There was too much love-making there, I doubt. And the young man said, How about the banns next Sunday And the young woman said, Have your own way about it, and don't plague me, which I suppose, meant Yes. We must follow this awful, swift-walking figure of poor Mrs. Evans, and watch her. 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.