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Excerpt from The Village Lawyer: A Comedy Drama in Four Acts Seth Barrett, a young lawyer, is running for district attorney against David Conant, a political "boss" of long standing. Conant is incensed at Seth's refusal to withdraw his name from the ticket. Being unscrupulous and un-relenting toward those who thwart his purpose, he commands Seth, who is desperately in love with his daughter, Helen, to cease paying his attentions to her. Seth, early in his college career, sowed a few wild oats and became acquainted with gay Broadway and its habitues. He soon awoke to the folly of it all and quite forgets the incidents associated with that period. In some way, however, Conant learns of this, and negotiates with an actress, who knew Seth at this time, in an attempt to make public a greatly magnified account of Seth's past, in order to injure him politically. But despite Conant's iron will and underhanded methods, love finds a way. Seth is not easily frightened, is firm in his purpose, and plays the game so fairly that Conant becomes ashamed of his actions and relents. Inter-woven with the stormy courtship of the village lawyer, a quieter, but none the less earnest, romance runs its course. 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.