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. 1871 Excerpt: ... fit to descend to her level, and by being fond of him for his own. He gave her the sympathy and interest for which she cared. Her father never noticed what she was working at, or what she was reading. Her mother required her daughter to cut the Gordian knot for her, and when Mrs Paston found that Phoebe had a Gordian ...
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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. 1871 Excerpt: ... fit to descend to her level, and by being fond of him for his own. He gave her the sympathy and interest for which she cared. Her father never noticed what she was working at, or what she was reading. Her mother required her daughter to cut the Gordian knot for her, and when Mrs Paston found that Phoebe had a Gordian knot of her own, she only entangled Phoebe's more hopelessly. In Lady Dorothea's absence, Phoebe was intrusted with the care of her special pensioners, and took pains and pleasure in attending to them, in working for them, so that her skilful labour might supplement Lady Dorothea's materials. It was a threefold offering from Phoebe--to Him who bade her remember the poor, to the poor, and to Lady Dorothea, Lord Wriothesley did not know the names of comforters, mittens, gaiters, woollen and drugget stuffs, u a spark of nobility in it is humbled, under undeserved praise and happiness. But, without boasting of it, Phosbe rather liked her acquaintances to take notice of Lord Wriothesley's spending so much of his time on such a friendly footing in Wooers' Alley, and to wonder how the Pastons could get on with the young peer, and what they could find to say to him. Phoebe was in as besotted a sense of comfort and exemption from danger as ever was garrison on the eve of being surprised and taken by assault. r CHAPTER XXXIV. A DAWNING SUSPICION. jNE spring day, when Phoebe was pluming herself on soon seeing the lilies in blossom in the court, and the daffodils in the Brockcotes woods, and on having to clothe herself anew in Hoyle's printed calicoes and summer muslins (nothing half so beautiful), she encountered Lord Wriothesley at the Wellfield gate, where he had waylaid the twelve-o'clock post. He told her that all the family were coming home directly...
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