The young heiress Author:Frances Milton Trollope Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. It would not be easy to imagine a situation more miserably forlorn than that of Almeria Lambert, while thus preparing, utterly alone, and unsuppo... more »rted by any human spirit but her own, for a long and perilous voyage, the result of which was so wildly uncertain, and cheered by hopes so vague, as almost to defy her efforts to give them any form approaching probability. But her steadfast purpose was not to be shaken by any such considerations as these; on the contrary, the call thus made upon her courage and endurance seemed to awaken her to new life, and to renew all the original energy of her character. But desperately resolute as was the purpose which thus sent her forth in search of the unfortunate William Eixley, she could scarcely have undertaken it effectually had not a singularly well-timed piece of good fortune befallen her, which did, in fact, render an expedition possible, which without it must have been pretty evidently the reverse even to her excited and over-wrough mind. The house in Falmouth which she had inherited from her mother had, contiguous to it, about half an acre of ground, which had hitherto been both pleasant and profitable as a garden, but which was now unexpectedly become a very valuable morsel of the earth's surface. The quarter of the town in wbich the house was situated was by no means a particularly agreeable one, for it was at no great distance from the very busiest part of the sailors' quarter, and consequently noisily near the port. It chanced that two speculating individuals happened at nearly one and the same time to conceive the idea, that, in consequence of the rapidly-increasing business, VOL. III. C great profit might be realized by erecting warehouses on this rare bit of unoccupied freehold ground, and propo...« less