This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 edition. Excerpt: ...else calls before he goes away, say thatl am out." The morning toilet of Mrs. Sherbourne has already been described as bien soiglnee, and exceedingly attractive, even on ordinary occasions, and it was certainly rather more so than usual now: indeed, to a woman d pretention--and Mrs. Sherbourne was pre ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 edition. Excerpt: ...else calls before he goes away, say thatl am out." The morning toilet of Mrs. Sherbourne has already been described as bien soiglnee, and exceedingly attractive, even on ordinary occasions, and it was certainly rather more so than usual now: indeed, to a woman d pretention--and Mrs. Sherbourne was pre-eminently such in every sense of the phrase--no visit is more likely to excite a careful preparation than that of the editor of a critical journal, himself still received by way of a young man, still garg, 'on, and still fat. Mrs. Sherbourne knew perfectly well what she was about, nor must the slightest approach to indiscretion be attributed to her. On the contrary, whatever she did on this occasion, and on many others, which by the ignorant might have been thought to have that appearance, deserved to be described by an epithet very decidedly the reverse. But Mrs. Sherbourne would as soon have thought of putting her impassioned language, her original views on all subjects, her boasted knowledge of Italian, or any other of her manifold accomplishments, upon the shelf as her beauty. Her prose and poetry, her hands and feet, her wit, and her white shoulders, her philosophy and her long ringlets, her large eyes and her little Italian vocabulary, were one and all part and parcel of herself, and one and all part and parcel " of that by which she lived." " This is so kind!---so very kind, Mr. Marchmont!" she said, as the gentleman entered, "bowed upon her hand," and expressed his hopes that his early visit did not derange her occupations. " My occupations? Alas! What occupation can you attribute to me that I should weigh against the pleasure of seeing you? In your position, Mr. Marchmont, you...
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Add this copy of Charles Chesterfield to cart. $63.74, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2019 by Wentworth Press.
