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. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ...conversed about chairs and tables until Mrs. Charles informed him that he would be a most invaluable husband, and that she hoped soon to hear that such treasures of domesticity were directed into a right channel by the hand of matrimony. CHAPTER VI. THE ROAD TO SUCCESS. George Fortescue had ample ...
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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. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ...conversed about chairs and tables until Mrs. Charles informed him that he would be a most invaluable husband, and that she hoped soon to hear that such treasures of domesticity were directed into a right channel by the hand of matrimony. CHAPTER VI. THE ROAD TO SUCCESS. George Fortescue had ample opportunities during the next ten days of seeing not only Clarice and her sister, but also most of the worthies of Minsterham; for Easter and Easter decorations seemed to pervade the clerical atmosphere in which he found himself. The novelty of the situation amused him extremely, and the curious littlenesses of the characters with whom he was thrown in contact served to heighten in his eyes the amiable sweetness of Clarice's character, for she seemed able instantly to calm waters that were troubled by the agitating words of discussion, until a storm seemed imminent, as to the advisability of keeping the flowers used for the font entirely white, and who actually was willing to efface her own text altogether, if by so doing a place could be found for a wonderful and fearful illumination concocted by one of the congregation in secrecy, and produced with such an assurance of its pleasing effect upon her rector's daughters, that neither of them had the heart to suggest that it should be consigned to the oblivion that it deserved. Was it not Clarice who dried Miss Crompton's tears when she wept profusely on finding her cross erected in a dark corner behind the pulpit, instead of figuring, as she hoped it might be permitted to do, in the prominent place of honour in the East window? and did not Clarice insist on Mr. Westwood's binding up little bundles of moss and fern for the surgeon's daughters, who were filling the window-sills quite unattended, as...
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