Excerpt from The Mourtray Family, Vol. 1 of 4: A Novel This'plan, at that time, met with no opp'ofition from His bride: her frtuation, B 2 preprevious to her marriage, had been very uncomfortable, poverty having obliged her to accept an afylum from a crots old uncle; and the did not confider the pro teetion he afforded her as an adequate compenfation for the Wearifomc attend ance he exafled. Many years had thus paired, and the bad the mortification to fee her bloom begin to fade, with little or no profpeet of happ'er days, as nei filer her own, nor her lover's circum fiances, permitted their union. 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.