LONDON JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W. 1885 James Beresford and Annie his wife had been married for more than a dozen years--their only child, indeed, had nearly attained the age of twelve at the time when this history begins. They had both got footing on that plateau of middle age which, if it comes to something like level ground at thirty, need not think of a descending step for twenty years--the time of the greatest enjoyments and most solid progress of life. He was at one end and she at the other of the first decade; the one approaching the forties, the other scarcely well out of the twenties; both ready to laugh at the advance of ye…
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