Excerpt from The Earl's Daughter, Vol. 1<br><br>The peaceful soothing words of the daily service were said, and when they were ended there stood be fore the' altar of God, the high-born inheritors of honour and wealth, and the gentle children nursed in affluence and retirement, and the humble offspring of poverty, united by one creed, one hope, one danger, and summoned to join in one common act of self dedication.<br><br>Together they listened to the earnest supplication which was to bring down upon them from on high the sevenfold gifts of grace and then side by side they knelt, and each in turn bowed beneath a hand of blessing - the blessing of their Spiritual Father in Christ.<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.