Can You Forgive Her
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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1893 Original Publisher: Dodd, Mead Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Fiction / Political Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Boo...
MoreGeneral Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1893 Original Publisher: Dodd, Mead Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Fiction / Political Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. THE WILL. The coming of Mrs. Greenow at this very moment was a great comfort to Kate. Without her she would hardly have known how to bear herself with her uncle and her brother. As it was, they were all restrained by something of the courtesy which strangers are bound to show to each other. George had never seen his aunt since he was a child, and some sort of introduction was necessary between them. " So you are George," said Mrs. Greenow, putting out her hand and smiling. " Yes; I 'm George," said he. " And a member of Parliament! " said Mrs. Greenow. " It 's quite an honour to the family. I felt so proud when I heard it!" She said this pleasantly, meaning it to be taken for truth, and then turned away to her brother. " Papa's time was fully come," she said, "though, to tell the truth, I had no idea that he was so weak as Kate describes him to have been." " Nor I, either," said John Vavasor. " He went to church with us here on Christmas Day." "Did he, indeed? Dear, dear! He seems at last to have gone off just like poor Greenow." Here she put her handkerchief up to her face. " I think you did n't know Greenow, John? " " I met him once," said her brother. "Ah! he was n't to be known and understood iii that way. I 'm aware there was a little prejudice, because of his being in trade, but we won't talk of that now. Where should I have been without him, tradesman or no tradesman? " " I 've no doubt he was an excellent ma...
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