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. 1829 edition. Excerpt: ... CROSS PURPOSES. In one of the prettiest boudoirs that the caprice of fancy ever ornamented, and with the light of noon, fashionably diminished by rose-coloured draperies, sat Madame Fontblanque, a pretty little widow, who had scarcely seen her twentieth year, rapidly filling a sheet of embossed paper, ...
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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. 1829 edition. Excerpt: ... CROSS PURPOSES. In one of the prettiest boudoirs that the caprice of fancy ever ornamented, and with the light of noon, fashionably diminished by rose-coloured draperies, sat Madame Fontblanque, a pretty little widow, who had scarcely seen her twentieth year, rapidly filling a sheet of embossed paper, with expressions of regret, that a severe cold prevented her flying to her dearest friend, when the door opened, and that friend, Mrs. Waldegrave, entered the room. Madame Fontblanque's expressions of delight equalled her previous regret: "I thought," said she, "your uncle would not permit your absence in this paroxysm of his gout?"--" He is fortunately sleeping," answered Mrs. Waldegrave, "and had I not been able to see you to-day, I should have been in despair: I have a most wonderful discovery to relate! Do you remember the young Englishman who followed us so closely during our visit to Versailles?"--"Yes," replied Madame Fontblanque, "he was certainly more delighted with animate than inanimate objects that day."--" You thought so, I recollect," said Mrs. Waldegrave, with a smile, " if so, it is unfortunate, as he is my uncle's nephew, and if all events succeed to the wish and will of Mr. Waldegrave, the future husband of his niece and my sister-in-law, Louisa Waldegrave." "You appear extremely astonished, my dear Agnes, an / am surprised that you could meet so near a connexion as a stranger. I know there exists some odd fancy of your uncle's, about a marriage between Miss Waldegrave and her cousin Sir Lionel. Will you refresh my memory by relating the particulars?" "You know, my dear Adelaide, I always consider carelessness as half the cause of a bad memory. You shall therefore undergo the penance of a long story as a punishment. "Once...
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