Excerpt from How Like a Woman The Honorable Rachel Saltoun was the only child and heiress of Lord Edgar Saltoun, youngest son of the ''duke of craig-morris. Her parents had both died when she was a girl 1n the school-room, and she had inherited, through her mother, an estate in Surrey, and a large farm in Sussex; and through her father, a town house 1n Portland Place, which She thoroughly detested, and utterly refused to live in. She had some half-dozen heirs-presumptive, who, if they did not actually thirst for her blood, would, at least, have received the news of her death with equanimity. But She was young, vigorous, and energetic, possessing a large amount of vitality and a predominant will to live and en joy her life, which is, perhaps, the best preventive of an early demise. She was a young lady of three-and-twenty, freed from the legal control of her guardians and trustees, Sir Henry Mordaunt, her uncle, and Mr. Robert Vyse, her late father''s solicitor, and in the possession of her property; but still giving these two gentlemen a vast deal of anxiety on her account. She was neither wild, nor what is termed in these days, fast, but she held strange theories for so young a woman. 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.