The Custodian Classic Reprint

Excerpt from The Custodian They were hardly mortal in my eyes, these grand Castle folk. I can remember even now my surprise when the old Duke died. Once, so my mother told me, when I was still a baby in her arms, he had asked to see me, and my mother had unwrapped the shawls about me and presented my ruddy round face to his Grace's scrutiny. 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.