What Will He Do With It?: Restored Classics to Go Edition

Lionel Haughton's arrival at Fawley Manor is a journey into a world that seems half-ruined, half-remembered: remote commons and woods, a secluded park and lake, an ancient house beside the abandoned shell of an unfinished palace. The place feels at once romantic, eerie, and faintly comic, especially in the rough wit of the driver who says the great building was "put into Chancery." Inside, Lionel enters a house of carved wood, portraits, heraldic traces, and inherited dignity, where Mr. Darrell appears as a grave, commanding figure whose formal courtesy conceals sharp intelligence and quiet authority. As Lionel is drawn into the household, he meets Darrell's scholarly companion Dick Fairthorn, confronts his own social awkwardness, and is embarrassed by his lack of proper evening clothes. Yet the evening's books, music, and conversation also reveal the warmth beneath the reserve, even as a careless remark exposes Darrell's hidden grief and the shadow of Sophy. In the days that follow, Fairthorn's flute, the walks by the water, and talk of family history open into a sweeping account of the Darrell line—its medieval glory, royal favor, ruin, exile, and divided inheritance—placing Lionel within a legacy shaped by pride, loyalty, sorrow, and the burden of ancestral power. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.