Excerpt from A Bride From the Bush Any one with leisure and money, and Of no very romantic turn, should have left the beaten track Of globe-trotters, penetrated to the wilderness, and stayed there - as Alfred Bligh had done. Now, however, all was plain. A letter from Brindisi, just received, explained everything; Alfred's movements, so long Obscure, were at last revealed, and in a lurid light - that, as it were, Of the bombshell that had fallen and burst upon the Judge's breakfast-table. For Alfred was on his way to England with an Australian, wife; and this letter from Brindisi, was the first that his, people had heard Of it, or Of 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.