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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ...implied, and which he had confessed he had intended to offer the woman for whom at that moment he felt a devouring passion. "If you are only to be won by schedules, and balance-sheets, and assets, Miss Walton," he said bitterly, "I will win you that way." "There," she replied; "you cant think how much better I like you like that, --when you are nice and natural and practical and business-like, than when you: make yourself ridiculous by talking sentiment. Now we quite understand each other. The first move in the game which you talk of winning--mind, in two months--is the approval of Miss Peto to the whole transaction." And as the quartet had reached the crescendo which indicated the final flourish, Miss Walton got up languidly and strolled into the next room, followed by Murkle, in a more suppressed condition than was usual with that gentleman. Although Mrs. Clymer had particularly distinguished herself in the quartet, the disappearance of Stella and Murkle had not been lost upon her, and she gazed keenly into their countenances when they returned. Stellas face was a blank page, but much was to be read by so astute an observer in Murkles countenance; and Mrs. Clymer determined to devote herself to consoling him, as she called it to herself, for the rest of the afternoon. But indications of discomfort on the part of Murkle suggested that the process was anything but consolatory to that gentleman, who was the first to make his escape, in a very bad humour, from Ronald MacAlpines Keltic entertainment. CHAPTER IX. STELLA, S CONFIDENCES. IF, the night after the occurrences just related, some of the gentlemen most interested could possibly have peeped into a certain...
| ISBN-13 | 9781153229401 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1153229404 |
| Weight | 0.35 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.23 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 98 pages |
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| Published On | 2010-01-01 |
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