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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1906. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV A maid deposited a can of hot water, and knocked at Mrs. Elles' door next morning, as the latter had desired her to do over night. Thinking, perhaps, of her faithful Jane, she sleepily called out "Come in!" from force of habit. The servant stared at the new inmate of the "Heather Bell," unrestrainedly, as she lay there, in bed, her pretty hair ruffled over her forehead, and the disfiguring spectacles lying on the dressing-table beside her. Mrs. Elles did not know what hour it was; she had left her watch behind her in Newcastle, but she was sure she had been lying awake for hours and hours, listening to the bewildering chorus of birds from the pear tree all round her window, and the rub-a-dub of the churning in the yard below. "Nine o'clock, you say? Why did you not call me earlier? Has Mr. Rivers gone out sketching already?" was her first thoughtless question. "Yes, ma'am!" "Does he go every day?" Mrs. Elles further enquired, forgetting, too, to correct the title. "Every day, unless it rains." "And what does he do then?" "Bides at home and pents." 72 Mrs. Elles was recalled to a sense of the impropriety of all these questions on her part, and she dismissed the girl haughtily. She dressed, put back her hair, and resumed her spectacles with a sigh, but without hesitation. She had no full length mirror here to show her the oddish, but not ungraceful appearance that she presented, for, although her facial beauties were temporarily obscured, her slight figure in its boyish trim had a certain attractiveness of its own. The average glance would cursorily set her down for a well-grown school girl, labouring under a temporary affection of the eyes, which was, however, not serious enough to interfere with her health and spirits. After she had breakfasted, in pu...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781150403781
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 66
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150403780
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 136 gr

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