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Excerpt from Mary and Charles Lamb: Poems, Letters, and Remains; Now First Collected, With Reminiscences and Notes In the closing years of the eighteenth century, a small English family, in very humble circumstances, was occupying rooms at No. 7 Little Queen Street, Lincoln's-Inn Fields. The circle was composed of an old man and his wife, their two children (a brother and sister), and these children's aunt on the mother's side - a maiden lady already advanced in years. There was another son, who held some responsible position in the South-Sea House; but he, though a bachelor, lived apart. He was a person of rather peculiar disposition. The intercourse between him and his relatives was comparatively limited. The old man himself had formerly been clerk to one of the benchers of the Inner Temple, and had retired on a slender annuity. The son whom he had living with him under the same roof was, like his elder brother John, on the South-Sea establishment. John, it appears, had had it in his power to place him there. If we are not mistaken, this was nearly the only obligation under which the family ever lay to John. 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.