The Mantle of Elijah: A Novel
Book Description
Miss A lly, blazing away the gas. Here sa letter for you. Put it down, Gwenny. Allegra seye, in a fine frenzy rolling, did not lift itself from the paper on which her pen was rhyming, and the bedroom mirror before which she wrote continued to reflect only a curly head of reddish-brown hair. The old Welsh family servant stared. Allegra swont was to fall on her rare letters like a famished tigress a...
MoreMiss A lly, blazing away the gas. Here sa letter for you. Put it down, Gwenny. Allegra seye, in a fine frenzy rolling, did not lift itself from the paper on which her pen was rhyming, and the bedroom mirror before which she wrote continued to reflect only a curly head of reddish-brown hair. The old Welsh family servant stared. Allegra swont was to fall on her rare letters like a famished tigress and tear open their vitals in a twinkling. You might be telling us the news from the young ladies, Gwenny said with asperity. Allegra did not reply, but made a long erasure, frowned, and gnawed at her quill. You might be telling your mother the news from the young ladies, persisted Gwenny severely. Hasn tmother got a letter, too? Not a scrap. Blood is cheaper than ink. We are of no account. Allegra fidgeted, unwilling to be dragged from -P ar nassus either by domestic politics or the epistolary chatter of Dulsie or Mabel.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)
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