Allegiance, Vol. 1 of 2

Excerpt from Allegiance, Vol. 1 of 2: A Novel Down among the Surrey hills, not forty miles from London, with all its hurrying life and ceaseless confusion, such a spot is to be found. As you look at Nortons, partly hidden amongst the great trees that surround it, with walls covered with ivy and Virginian creeper, and roof yellow with the lichen and green with the moss of centuries, you feel at once that this is one of Nature's favoured retreats, that here she has sheltered herself against the modern invader, and that Nortons has stood, as indeed it has, for hundreds of years, just as it stands now, quiet and undisturbed. 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.