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Excerpt from The Trials of the Bantocks It was, as I have said, such exterior things as these - to the exclusion of what is nobler and better still which fascinated my youth, to my shame or not, as your memory may determine. And even now, when (asi think) the true goodness and beauty of the Bantock life are apparent to me, I am not unin?uenced by the former considerations. In the hardship and anx iety which beset the life of one who writes for bread, it is refreshing and comfortable to turn aside to such a house as the Ban tocks'. There one feels that after all there is something solid and permanent in life. As I look down their ?owered dinner-table and note the gently-smiling, untroubled faces, and glance aside to the noiseless footmen and imperturbable but ler, I feel that, though my own attic crust may haply vanish, so long as the Bantocks live they will dine well. When, trudging on weary feet along Piccadilly, I see Mrs. 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.