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. 1904 Excerpt: ... is heartbroken under the faithlessness of the man she has loved will attempt a passionate game of dissimulation, an extraordinary assumption of indifference and wild gaiety, sooner than pour out her piteous tale in the ears of the woman who bore her, or of the sister who has hitherto shared every thought. It is a ...
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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. 1904 Excerpt: ... is heartbroken under the faithlessness of the man she has loved will attempt a passionate game of dissimulation, an extraordinary assumption of indifference and wild gaiety, sooner than pour out her piteous tale in the ears of the woman who bore her, or of the sister who has hitherto shared every thought. It is a shallow inference--only true in the case of the weak, that a man or a woman's natural confidante is his or her bosom friend or blood relation--rather, the next thing to a stranger will be preferred, if a confidence must needs be given. Cat, with all her cleverness, did not realise this as Bennet might have done. Yet the elder sister, with her rampant sense of justice, recognised that it was in the essence of things that Sam, who had been literally without an associate near his own age and of his own class, should moderate his gruffness to welcome the overtures of the new curate-in-charge, in Mr. Scott's absence. Grudge Sam to another as Cat might and did, and kick violently at the idea of his making this light-hearted young gentleman with the womanish curly hair--(granting that he was neither unbecomingly volatile nor effeminate in his sermons and in the deeds of reform in Olney which illustrated his sermons)--Sam's father confessor, the two young men soon became friends. Little John, who showed a desire to make every man and woman in the town his comrade and fellow worker, enlisted Sam in a project which the curate had much at heart. He it was who started the scheme of getting the farmers in the neighbourhood, when work was slack, to plough the waste land which was no-man's-land, of which there was abundance in the parish. The performance was the earliest, most primitive example of "allotments," where the poor--the white-faced, limp lad...
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 500grams, ISBN:
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