Excerpt from The Peddler: A Novel For five generations the Kirkland family had lived at Kirkland Manor, and for the last three of these their neighbors had regarded them with a mixture of admiration, respect, and strong disapprobation. Such esteem as the Kirklands received in the community was principally for what they represented. They were the Oldest dwellers on the land, possessed of wealth commensurate with their station, direct in their dealings (often painfully so), good to look upon, and possessed a number of ...
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Excerpt from The Peddler: A Novel For five generations the Kirkland family had lived at Kirkland Manor, and for the last three of these their neighbors had regarded them with a mixture of admiration, respect, and strong disapprobation. Such esteem as the Kirklands received in the community was principally for what they represented. They were the Oldest dwellers on the land, possessed of wealth commensurate with their station, direct in their dealings (often painfully so), good to look upon, and possessed a number of admirable traits which many held to be more than counterbalanced by their failings. But they represented that rare ele ment, an American aristocracy which was based on descent, breeding, long established customs of elegance and residence upon the soil. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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