Excerpt from The Romance of a Ritualist She led Haig to a seat under an old wall over which showers of white and red roses fell, and made him sit there beside her, and asked him his age now, and what he had been doing with his life, and why he had so seldom written to her (he had not written for two years: but she was merciful), and how his sister was; and when he had last been to see his dear mother's grave. And every now and then, in her gentle questioning and still more gentle chiding, she put up her eye-glasses to ...
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Excerpt from The Romance of a Ritualist She led Haig to a seat under an old wall over which showers of white and red roses fell, and made him sit there beside her, and asked him his age now, and what he had been doing with his life, and why he had so seldom written to her (he had not written for two years: but she was merciful), and how his sister was; and when he had last been to see his dear mother's grave. And every now and then, in her gentle questioning and still more gentle chiding, she put up her eye-glasses to look at him, and always looked at him over them. And then she made him stand up before her, and said, How tall he was grown; and what a shrivelled little woman he made her feel, expanding his chest there like a gallant soldier, between her and the sun - as if she had not as much right to the sun as he, for all his proud looks! 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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