Excerpt from The Feet of Love However, warned perhaps by Miss Elger's manner, the young rector strove to include his silent mk-d-m': in the conversation, but, beyond an occasional polite monosyllable, she seemed to choose listening, although Josephine would have preferred that too. She was in the mood for watching in happy silence the young man's dark face with its unregenerate eyes, brought out finely by the dull red curtain at his back, and for allowing her innocent imagination to hold a mild carnival of day-dreams at ...
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Excerpt from The Feet of Love However, warned perhaps by Miss Elger's manner, the young rector strove to include his silent mk-d-m': in the conversation, but, beyond an occasional polite monosyllable, she seemed to choose listening, although Josephine would have preferred that too. She was in the mood for watching in happy silence the young man's dark face with its unregenerate eyes, brought out finely by the dull red curtain at his back, and for allowing her innocent imagination to hold a mild carnival of day-dreams at which she would afterward flush and shut her soft little hand hard in angry impatience at herself. At last, Mr. Wolfe rose to go, but, as they all stood lingering about the door, a bell rang sharply. He had been at the house often enough before to know what that bell meant. Mrs. Elger, a nervous invalid, had probably gone into a fresh swoon, or her maid had irritated her, or she had a headache that only Josephine's touch could soothe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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