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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: H Cornisb flfeato. By BARBARA LAKE, Author of'the Betrayal Of Reuben Holt, A Profitless Quest, etc. etc. CHAPTER XVII. CLEM'S LETTER. It was the day on which Clem Freer and Mr. Lane had met at the Paddtngton Railway Station?the day before the one fixed for the wedding of Miller Penrose and Jenny Caerden. 'It was a cheerless day, too, blustering, cold, and, withal, disposed to be showery. There must, moreover, have been something depressing in the atmosphere just then; for, taking them all round, the good folks of Treverdale seemed to be grumpy and to have adopted gloomy views of things in general; while even the pretty village itself wore a dismal and comfortless look. Mary Seaton, however, was an exception to the prevailing gloom, for she was too busy to be affected by extraneous circumstances. She had been up betimes, with the object of getting through her domestic duties as early as possible, for she had yielded to Jenny's entreaties that she would be her bridesmaid, and she had the finishing touches to put to the new gown she was to wear on the morrow. Mrs. Ashdown was keeping to her bedroom, on account of the cold wind; but Mary had tenderly ministered to all her wants, and was just regarding her new frock with deeply admiring eyes, when Jenny Caerden, a shawl flung carelessly over her head and shoulders, came flying into the kitchen. Oh, Mary, she cried, what do 'ee think's happened, now ? ?I ha' got a letter from Clem Freer, 't last T' pos'-boy brought it to me more'n a hour ago, but I couldn't come down wi' it before, 'cos o' gitten' t' tiresome chil'ren off to school an' sech. 'Tis a dreadful letter, too?un's bin ill an' a lot o' things, an' I'm sure I doan't knaw what to do, I doan't, i'deed ' And she flung poor Clem's letter on the...
| ISBN-13 | 9781459095755 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1459095758 |
| Weight | 0.82 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.56 In |
| List Price | $22.81 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 248 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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