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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895. Excerpt: ... BAD NEWS One hot evening toward the end of August Hilary had taken her books into the garden and was trying to read there. The Freres had not gone to Norderney. Indeed, they had not been away at all. For the first time in their lives the girls were spending August in London instead of on a Swiss mountain top, in a German watering-place, or at the English seaside. Every day their mother proposed a journey, and every day their father managed to stave it off. The discussions were interminable, but so far nothing had come of them but the acquisition of several new guide-books and a lively European correspondence as to terms and suitable accommodation. The girls could not understand why their mother consented to this long delay. Everyone they knew had left town long since. Mrs. Theodore and Sophia were at Pontresina. Arthur Preston was on his way to the Dolomites. Dick Lorimer had gone sea-fishing off the Cornish coast. Even the daily papers wrote of mountain, moor, and sea. Hilary had stumbled on a leader this very morning that set her longing for salt breezes, for pine forests, for moorland hills, for anything countrified, instead of the stale, dusty streets outside their garden gate. Even her own home seemed in need of a cleansing air; at any rate, everyone in it looked jaded and irritable. The Greek play was making little progress. Hilary had taken it into the garden tonight, but she felt languid and disinclined for work, and before she had considered three lines her mother appeared. "I can't think what makes your father so late," she said. Hilary put down her book and stared absently across the garden. Their usual dinner hour had gone by, and there was no sign yet of Mr. Frere. "Perhaps he went to Cook's to get those return tickets," she suggested. "I'm a...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781150786716
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 102
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 115078671X
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 195 gr


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