Excerpt from Elizabeth Eden, Vol. 3 of 3: A Novel She had been too confident in thinking that the mere possession of nine thousand a year could secure her a corresponding social position, and so she had neglected to make friends with her mammon, and had begun her English career by very undiplo matic contradiction of English ways and ideas. She had a good deal of Genevese conceit, and had ridden rough-shod over the insignificant people who have it in their power to make life disagreeable to their dependent superiors. Ri'he station master, the inn-keeper, the post-master, strictly performed their duties towards her but no more. With truly republican tem per she tried to bully them, but Waghorn, the Old bailiff, showed her that she would get the worst Of that. 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.