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Excerpt from A Secret Inheritance, Vol. 1 of 3 We were surrounded by squalid thorough fares, the residents in which were persons occupying the lowest' stations of life, human bees whose hives were not over stocked with honey, being indeed, I have no doubt, fre quently bare of it. This was not the result of indolence, for they toiled early and late. I saw, and observed. Sometimes I won dered, sometimes I despised, and I always shrank from close contact with these sordid conditions Of existence. If I had possessed a store of pocket-money it is not unlikely that a portion of it would have been ex' 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.
