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. 1894 Excerpt: ...his repentance, as he turned his face to his distant home. Suddenly the countenance of the baroness grew shining with a glad light as she read, "And when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him." She was almost triumphant, as she seemed to clothe ...
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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. 1894 Excerpt: ...his repentance, as he turned his face to his distant home. Suddenly the countenance of the baroness grew shining with a glad light as she read, "And when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him." She was almost triumphant, as she seemed to clothe the wanderer in the best robes, and put a ring on his finger, and shoes on his weary feet. Then came the story of the murmuring elder brother. Carl questioned himself---" Was that a description of his own father, repentant, forgiven; and was he like the hard, unmerciful elder brother?" Something of the same kind floated through the mind of the candidate, and was dimly present to the duller sense of the other listeners. They had not long to dwell on their own thoughts, for the baroness indicated a familiar hymn, and looking pleasantly at Emma she said, "Now we will close our little service with a song of praise." Emma began, as the baroness intended. Then came the baroness's own strong beautiful voice, that had not been heard in the castle for many long years. The candidate found himself singing, he hardly knew why. "Feeling! only feeling!" he thought. But from that day forward he sang in the little circle where the baroness had taken his place at the family altar--quietly taken it, though she did not yet appear during the week. Carl felt knit to his other by a new bond. Closer he felt to her, yet still; ir away. The knowledge of the secret she had tendi-ly kept from him was still an invisible bar between i 'iem; but the boy loved his mother with a deeper and higher affection. She was now linked with the better life springing in his inmost soul. CHAPTER XII. CARL-DAY. HOGNAS was not necessarily like a lo...
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Add this copy of The Little Swedish Baron to cart. $38.96, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2019 by Wentworth Press.
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Very good. Hardcover, presumed first, 184pp. plus ads Some shelf wear to the board edges, still a very good copy with clean text and sound binding. Blue decorative cloth, gilt stamped lettering. No dust jacket.
