A Woman's Reason (German Edition)
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9781458801074
Paperback|9781458801074
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: to meet in coming out of his house a young lady of such beauty and elegance as he had just encountered. This young lady, as he closed the door behind him, had run up the steps with the loop of her train in one hand after the fashion of ten years ago, and in the other a pretty travelling-bag, carried with the fearlessness of a lady who knows that people are out of town. She glanced a little wonderingly, a little defiantly, at the policeman, who, seeing that she must drop one or other of her burdens to ring, politely rang for her. textit{{Thank you said the young lady, speaking a little more wonderingly, a little more defiantly than she had looked. Quite welcome, Miss, returned the policeman, and touched his hat in going down the steps, while the young lady turned and stared after him, leaning a little over the top step on which she stood, with her back to the door. She was very pretty indeed, with blue eyes at once tender and honest, and the fair hair, that goes with their beauty, hanging loosely upon her forehead. Her cheeks, in their young perfection of outline, had a flush beyond their usual delicate colourtextit{{; the heat, and her eager dash up the steps had suffused them with a dewy bloom, that seemed momently to deepen and soften. Her loveliness was saved from the insipidity of faultless lines by a little downward curve, a quirk, or call it dimple, at one corner of her mouth, which, especially in repose, gave it a touch of humorous feeling and formed its final charm: it seemed less a trait of facethan of character. That fine positive grace, which is called style, and which is so eminently the gift of exquisite nerves, had not cost her too much; she was slim, but not fragile, and her very motionless- ness suggested a vivid bird-like mobility; she stood, as if she...
| ISBN-13 | 9781458801074 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1458801071 |
| Weight | 1.06 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.73 In |
| List Price | $20.21 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 326 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-07-01 |
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