Excerpt from The Village of Mariendorpt, Vol. 4 of 4: A Tale Yet though not one of the family at' the Parsonage ventured to yield to sorrowful reflections, a cloud darkened all their hearts! Every instant they looked Wlth habitual expectation to the Opening door of the general sitting room, for Rupert's smiling countenance, or Julian' s infantine one; and as Often tamed away, sighing and disappointed. A distant step, an indistinct tone, kindled all their looks at the same in stant: as quickly would those lights go_ out, vanishing with the delusion that had given them birth. 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.