Neighbours on the Green (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Neighbours on the GreenWe led a ver pleasant, neighbourly life in those days. Some of us were ric er, and some poorer, but we all visited each other. The bigger houses asked the smaller ones to dinner, and did not disdain to pay a return visit to tea. In the summer afternoons, if you crossed the Green (and could hear anything for the noise the cricketers made) you would be sure to hear, in one quarter or another, the click of the croquet balls, and find all the young people of the place assembled over their game, not without groups of the elder ones sitting round on the edge Of the well-mown lawns. When I settled there first, I was neither young nor Old, and there was a difficulty which party to class me with but by degrees I found my place among the mothers, or aunts, or general guardians of the society and by degrees my young neighbours came to be appropriated to me as my particular charge. We walked home together, and we went to parties together, and, of course, a little gossip got up about the Admiral - gossip which was entire} without foundation, for I detest second marria es, and indeed ave had quite enough of it for my part. But elly took a clinging to me - I don't. Say a.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.