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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: Hpollo jflfee. Apollo flies, and Daphne holds the chase. Midsummer Nighfs Dream. CHAPTER I. Mervyn Jardine was gathering roses in rather listless fashion in the old garden at Rosebank. Certainly the weather for the time of year was perfect, and the golden autumn sunshine flooding the landscape seemed to bring with it memories of July. The garden, itself a scene of old-world loveliness, was flanked on the right by a pine-wood, while to the left lay the open country. Mervyn herself seemed to be taking little notice of anything, and when she had finished gathering her roses, stood abstractedly gazing at the dim blue outline of the distant hills. She was a slim, graceful girl of about twenty years, with good features and dark hair and eyes. Not any especial beauty in her face, but one could not help feeling that there was a certain capacity for beauty about her. She might either develop into a very lovely woman, or become an ordinary one. Do we not all know this type of face ? Mervyn, Mervyn, where are you ? called out a rather thin, but pleasant voice, the voice being followed by the appearance of a neat old lady, about fifty or thereabouts. Tea is just ready, dear, I have been looking all over the house for you, she continued. I wanted some roses, auntie, my very last afternoon, you know Mervyn replied, slipping her arm through that of her aunt. Miss Margaret Jardine had cared for her brother's orphaned daughter, ever since the latter had been deprived of both father and mother by a railway accident which took place when Mervyn was about three years old. On reaching the pleasant drawing-room Miss Jardine ordered tea to be brought, whilst Mervyn flung open the low French windows, and then seated herself in a chair near her aunt. Oh, aunti...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217636469 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217636462 |
| Weight | 0.58 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.40 In |
| List Price | $23.65 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 172 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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