Election

Excerpt from The Election: A Tale of Irish Life Our readers are requested to picture to themselves, a tolerably spacious drawing room, in a large, many-windowed, old-fashioned, aris-tocratdc-looking mansion, furnished with all the fixtures and moveables, usually found in such localities. Of these articles, we shall specify but two, as worthy of regard on the present occasion, viz. a sofa, and a well-stuffed easy chair, on castors, placed directly opposite to each other - the distance between them being nearly filled up by a table well furnished with gaily bound books, and writing materials. On the sofa sat a lady of that unguessable time of life, so happily and appropriately termed "a certain age." 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.