Excerpt from How Cynthia Went a-Maying a Romance of Long Ago, Wherein the Siege of Wardour Castle Is Truly ChronicledCrabbed Age and Youth Cannot live together: Youth is full of pleasance, Age is full of care.Cynthia was at the end of her patience. All that long afternoon, an eternity of weariness, she had been sitting bolt upright in the stiff high-backed chair, with her hands crossed on her lap, While the preacher's voice droned on anqi a sleepy echo rumbled through the great ha 1.The girl's vagrant thoughts had wandered far afield from that time present - the last Sunday in April of the year 164 3 - and from the grave words of solemn teaching poured forth with such patient zeal. They woke no responsive chord in her untempered spirit.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.

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