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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: a Xover'0 Secret. By Mrs. H. LOVETT CAMERON, Author of In a Grass Country, A Devout Lover, A Lost Wife, This Wicked World, Etc. CHAPTER I. THE THREE MAIDS OF FAIRMEAD. Shedwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the Springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love.?Wordsworth. Man is the cause of all the trouble in the world. We do not require the testimony, overwhelming as it is, of a mass of correspondence recently published in a daily paper, to convince us of the fact that woman's only chance of safety is to keep- clear of him, her only hope of happiness a firm resolution to shape her life without him. The speaker was a very old lady. She sat bolt upright upon her garden chair, and as she gave utterance to the above sentiment, which, truth to say, she had thus solemnly enunciated many hundreds of times before; the heavy, gold-rimmed glasses in her wrinkled right hand swayed slowly up and down as though to impress the words yet more firmly and emphatically upon the minds of her hearers. There were three generations of women seated together uporr the broad lawn in front of Fairmead Hall. Miss Durham, the elder, who had spoken, Miss Margaret Durham, her niece, who heard her in pensive silence, and with looks of gentle resignation, and Margaret the younger, her great niece, commonly called Madge, who looked profoundly weaned, and somewhat mutinous into the bargain, as she listened. Madge looked, in fact, as if she could have said a great deal if she had dared. But nobody ever dared to contradict old Miss Durham; so after a brief pause she once more took up the thread of her parable. You have heard me tell you more than once of the prophecy in our family, which, strangely enough, my dears, is now, apparent...
| ISBN-13 | 9781459095663 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1459095669 |
| Weight | 0.88 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.61 In |
| List Price | $24.86 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 268 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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