The private life, Lord Beaupr�, The visits
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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. 1893 Excerpt: ... you would be just the thing for us He had evidently been reasoning it out. Mary Gosselin was silent at first, she only paused gradually in their walk at a point where four long alleys met. I...
MoreThis 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. 1893 Excerpt: ... you would be just the thing for us He had evidently been reasoning it out. Mary Gosselin was silent at first, she only paused gradually in their walk at a point where four long alleys met. In the centre of the circle, on a massive pedestal, rose in Italian bronze a florid, complicated image, so that the place made a charming Old World picture. The grounds of Bosco were stately without stiffness and full of marble terraces and misty avenues. The fountains in particular were royal. The girl had told her mother in London that she disliked this fine residence, but she now looked round her with a vague, pleased, sigh, holding up her glass (she had been condemned to wear one, with a long handle, since she was fifteen), to consider the weather-stained garden group. "What a perfect place of its kind!" she musingly exclaimed. "Wouldn't it really be just the thing?" Lord Beaupre went on, with the eagerness of his idea. "Wouldn't what be just the thing?" "Why, the defensive alliance we've already talked of. You wanted to know the good it would do you. Now you see the good it would do you!" "I don't like practical jokes," said Mary. "The remedy's worse than the disease," she added; and she began to follow one of the paths that took the direction of the house. Poor Lord Beaupre was absurdly in love with his invention, he had all an inventor's importunity. He kept up his attempt to place his "dodge " in a favorable light, in spite of a further objection from his companion, who assured him that it was one of those contrivances which break down in practice in just the proportion in which they make a figure in theory. At last she said: "I was not sincere just now when I told you I'm worried. I'm not...
Publisher | RareBooksClub.com |
Binding | Paperback (11 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized
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# of Pages | 40 |
ISBN-10 | 1235980413 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1235980411 |
Publication Date | 05/16/2012 |
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