J. S. Le Fanu 
Guy Deverell [PDF ebook] 

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The Baronet was, by that awful red-bound volume of dates, which is one of the melancholy drawbacks of aristocracy, set down just then, and by all whom it might concern, ascertainable to be precisely forty nine years and three months old; but so well had he worn, and so cleverly was he got up, that he might have passed for little more than forty.