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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. FORESHADOWS. ASPER BRANT YNHAM was a tall, broad-shouldered fellow, of about six-and-twenty; finely proportioned, with a fair open countenance and large bright blue eyes full of good nature and shrewd common sense; he wore no beard, but had a profusion of light curly hair, which would sometimes fall over his forehead, and he had a habit of tossing it back with a graceful motion of the head that was characteristic, to say the least of it, and won him many a fair admirer. He had beautiful hands and feet, a fact he was well aware of, and he took care always to set them off to the best advantage, wearing the neatest ofboots and best fitting of gloves. Though fully aware of the advantages nature had given him, he was no fop, and even in his earlier days had nothing of puppyhood about him. The Brantynhams of Brantynham were an old family, not rich, but always holding ahigh position, such as a good name and fame alone can give, in their native county. They had held the same lands and lived in the same old-fashioned hall from generation to generation, with never a blot on their escutcheon. A peculiar character of their own had these Brantynhams, corroded by no mean vices or polished follies. They were charitable in their dealings with the poor, and in their judgment of the rich?charity of the latter quality being, perhaps, the rarer of the two. They were a fiery, large-hearted race. Their one failing was pride?that sin by which angels fell?and an unlimited confidence in themselves and their doings, which brooked no interference either from friend or foe. Being such true gentlefolk as they were, they could afford to despise those petty advantages of purse or person that are held so dear by meaner souls. Jasper Brantynham, who was the present heir to the est...