Excerpt from The Old Oak Chest, Vol. 3 of 3: A Tale of Domestic Life But this 1s not all - nay, this is nothing when compared with another satisfaction. The Object of his fear and of his hatred, she who for years had embittered hi? Rest, and had made him dream night and day of disappointment - she who had been as a ser pent ih his path, and whom he longed to crush beneath his heel, was now at his mercy. He had trampled upon her at last. He had made her drink the cup of bitterness to the dregs. Close by the corpse of the good old man who had loved her, and whom she ha (1 dearly loved, he had reproached, reviled, insulted her. He had told her to go forth from amidst the happy scenes which she had brightened to abandon for ever all the prosperity which she had enjoyed so gently and em ployed so well - to become a hireling and a dependent upon others. He had seen her heart wrung and her spirit quail, and her cheek blush, and her eye fill with tears at his words. 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.