Excerpt from Edmund Fulleston: Or the Family Evil GeniusHalchester is not large, but it is of sufficient extent to have suburbs. Like all places of its venerable associations, it occupies the valley through which its stream flows. An old stone bridge connects two divisions, and from it roads ascend two Opposite hills. Goswell, once a hamlet of the parish of Essendon, is situated on the southern. It consists of a scattered group of brick houses, generally of some pretension to importance, surrounded by pleasant gardens, with indi cations of ease and comfort within. The northern eminence is known as Gorhambury. The edifices there, for the most part, are stucco. They belong otherwise to the same class as those of Goswell, though they may be perhaps a degree more grandiose. N o self-respecting person could walk through either district without fingering his necktie to assure himself of its correct position. A Sunday-afternoon air perpetually envelope both.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.