Excerpt from E, the Complete and Somewhat Mad History of the Family of Montague Vincent, Esq., Gent Somewhere on the coast of the blue ocean, not a hundred miles from New York, lay the once peaceful hamlet of Cross ways. In the late seventies when Monty Vincent, trying a new hunter, first stumbled on the place it was in fact the horse that stumbled and broke his collar bone (vincent's collar bone) 7 thereby involving him (vincent) in matrimony - as we shall see there were broad green fields speckled with daisies, patches of fragrant woodland, with here and there an ancient rambl in g farm-house, shaded by large trees -all the trees in Crossways were large. The tiny village lay hidden beneath gigantic elms and flourish ing lilac bushes. The main street in its full extent, from the white flag-pole before the post cihoe to the butyin'-ground, was not a quarter of a mile, but it comprised a world quite complete in itself. On the border of this world, and betwixt it and a garish new aristocratic summer colony, stood an old manor house where dwelt, in all peace and quietness, a widow with one fair daughter, very fair indeed, with blue eyes and sweet country ways. It was to this old manor house that Montague Vincent was borne unconscious by several farm-hands. 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.