Excerpt from A Life's Secret: A Story On the outskirts of Ketterford, a town of some note in the heart of England, stood, a few years ago, a white house, its green lawn, surrounded by shrubs and flowers, sloping down to the high-road. It probably stands there still, looking as if not a day had passed over its head since; for houses, unlike men and women, can almost be made to renew their youth again. A cheerful, handsome house, of moderate size, the residence of Mr. Thornimett. At the distance of a stone's-throw, towards the open country, were sundry workshops and sheds - a large yard intervening between them and the house. 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.