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Excerpt from Irkdale; Or the Odd House in the Hollow, Vol. 2 of 2: A Lancashire Story It now becomes my duty to introduce the reader to an instance of this unromantic kind of courtship, in which he need not expect finding many tears and sighs, nor to follow the lovers along moonlit walks by hawthorn scented' hedge-rows, or sit with them in bow ers of rosy bliss. He must be content to surround himself with humbler scenes and associations than these, and listen to less extravagant language than is sometimes put into the mouths of Cupid's votaries. In short, he must transport himself from the pleasant. 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.