Excerpt from Wooers and Winners, Vol. 2 of 3: Or, Under the Scars; A Yorkshire Story His was a brief holiday, little more than a week. It did not include Christmas, but it gladdened other hearts besides his own. People in those days were not holiday-mad they had scarcely begun to live and travel at railway speed, and his visit comprehended the charge of Miss Metcalfe on her final journey home; a charge the importance of which had been doubly impressed upon him. 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.