Excerpt from Noblesse Oblige: An English Story of to-Day One day as the child was playing beside her father, a tall stooping gentleman strolled in, and Mr Paston im mediately stopped his work to attend to him. The cir cumstance took hold of Phoebe's mind, for her father was not given to pay heed to visitors, and, indeed, pushed ln's absorption in his labours to the extent of making Mrs Paston feel cruelly injured. 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.