Excerpt from John Halifax, Gentleman, Vol. 3 of 3 We went home, leaving all that was mortal of our darling sleeping at Enderley, underneath the snows. For twelve years after then, we lived at Longfield;in such unbroken, uneventful peace, that looking back seems like looking back over a level sea, whose leagues of tiny ripples make one smooth glassy plain. Let me recall, as the first wave that rose, ominous of change, - a certain spring evening, when Mrs. Halifax and I were sitting, as was our wont, under the walnut-tree. 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.