Excerpt from Boy: A Sketch Captain the Honourable, mindful of his race and breeding, took care to marry a lady whose ancestry was only just in a slight degree lower than his own. She could not trace her lineage back to the twelfth century, still, she came of what is some times called a good old stock, and she was hand some enough as a girl, though always large, lazy. 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.