Excerpt from The History of Margaret Morton, Vol. 1 of 3 The interior of Mrs. Archibald's house accorded with the spirit that presided over the arrangement of her gardens. Everything was fresh and new, excepting the china and pictures, some of which were very old. Of the manufactured articles, as of the objects of flirt/12, it may be said everything was too good to be gaudy. Though each individual piece of furniture was substantially good, the whole arrangement wore rather an air of tranquil elegance than of mere material comfort. Mrs. Archibald was leading a very quiet life. She was a widow; and her health was not robust. In her husband' s time she had travelled, and seen a great deal of the world; but the circle of her immediate acquaintance was now narrowed to two old and two young friends. The elderly friends were Miss Maunsell and Mr. Wynum; the younger, Margaret Morton, Mrs. Archibald's niece, who lived with her. 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.