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. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ...to speak about that either, tell me about the whipper--no, that word also is prohibited. I shall have to make a list of what I may and of what I may not speak of in your presence. Tell me about the young man whom you love so devotedly." "What am I to tell?" "Didn't you come here, Miss Betty, for the express ...
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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. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ...to speak about that either, tell me about the whipper--no, that word also is prohibited. I shall have to make a list of what I may and of what I may not speak of in your presence. Tell me about the young man whom you love so devotedly." "What am I to tell?" "Didn't you come here, Miss Betty, for the express purpose of discussing him with me?" Betty blushed furiously. "You came here, I think, to plead with me for your Richard." "Well, yes, I did." "You love him, but you do not love him passionately." "Certainly not. I have told you before that I do not love him passionately." Earlcote laughed. "My dear young lady," he said, "you had better beware. If you treat your Richard too frigidly he will some day go off and marry someone else. Why, you carry your obstinate self-deception so far that you pronounce the very word 'passion' as if your mouth were sprinkled with cayenne pepper, and it were agony to speak. You are a foolish, silly, absurd little girl. You pride yourself upon the spiritual tie that binds you to your Richard. Spiritual ties! As well tie up a criminal's hands with ribbons of smoke as expect to bind a man and a woman together by spiritual ties only. We are of the earth, earthy, and we cannot escape from our earthy heritage. 'Blood is thicker than water, ' the old adage says. Perhaps that offends you also by its coarseness. If not, it is because you lack the faculty for coherent and logical thought. There could exist no blood relationship whatever--not the tender bonds uniting sister and sister, the strong tie which unites brother and brother, if it were not for the exercise of this particular function of Nature." Betty's self-possession gave way. She made no effort to fence with this remorseless intellectual machine, clanging out its...
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E. A. Furman. Very Good in VG- jacket. Book. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Pub by Dillingham, 1913, NAP, presumed 1st Edition. NOT exLib. VG cond. hardcover w/ VG-minus unclipped pict dustjacket now in archival Brodart. Red cloth over bds w/ black lettering on cover & spine. Illus in browntone by E.A. Furman. Lt-mdt soiling to dj, still bright & colorful & displays well. 486pp + 2pp. Square, straight, tight & clean except as noted, overall VG/VG-cond. Same or next day shipping. Please email any questions.
