Excerpt from The Heart of Sally Temple The accident happened just outside Vauxhall Gardens late in the afternoon. The rear axle broke, and let the coach down in the road with a prodigious thump. But the coachman knew his business, and had his horses stopped within a dozen yards. It was well he had, for the thump and the subsequent bumping were enough to have shaken the nerves of a stronger woman than Lady Pamela Tree, even had she not been in such a novel situation. The lady gave a shriek and shut her eyes. She did not have to reach out to anyone for protection, inasmuch as she was already in the arms of a young gentleman, and seemed likely to cling there forever. 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.