Excerpt from Eugene Aram: A Tale<br><br>The strange history of Eugene Aram had excited my interest and wonder long before the present work was composed or conceived. It so happened that, during Aramf s_ residence st Lynn, h_i_s_ reputation for learning had attracted the notice of my grandfather, a country-gentle: man living in the same county, and of more intelligence and accomplishments than at that day usually charac terized his class. Again frequently visited at Heydon (my grandfather's house), and gave lessons, probably In no very elevated branches of erudition, to the younger mem bers of the family. This I chanced to hear when I was on a visit in Norfolk, some two years before this novel was published, and it tended to increase the interest with, which I had previously speculated on the phenomena of a trial which, take it altogether, is perhaps the most remarkable in the register of English crime. I endeav ored to collect such anecdotes of Aram's life and manners as tradition and hearsay still-kept afloat. These anecdotes were so far uniform that they all concurred in representing him as a person who, till the detection of the crime for which he was sentenced, had appeared of the mildest character and the most unexceptionable morals. An invariable gentleness and patience in his mode of tuition qualities then very uncommon at schools had made him so beloved by his pupils at Lynn, that, in after life.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.