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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: CHAPTER IV. ' In every well-conditioned stripling, as I conjecture, there already blooms a certain prospective Paradise, cheered by some fairest Eve.' Presently they move, and passing down the slabbed incline, and across the water into the King's garden, tread very slowly the fine gravel of the broad walk, as sentinels on either hand of which stand heaven-high firs, that yet have been clipped out of all fir semblance, and, like their brothers round the Schloss, wear the likeness of yews, cut into such tall narrow sugar-loafs that their forest kin would disown them. Silently they step along. Perhaps the utter repose, the absence of progress and hurry, the sober stillness of all around, tells sleepily upon their young spirits. Perhaps to them speech is not so easy as it was a month ago. It is Belinda who resumes the conversation. 'I suppose that it will devolve upon me after all?' she says with a sigh. ' That what will devolve upon you ?' asks Rivers dreamily. He has forgotten all about Professor Forth, and is lost in a sea of speculation as to whether ever woman in this world before had such a short upper lip. 'To tell Professor Forth that I do not think he will be my brother-in-law, she answers, smiling. ' You think that Miss Churchill will shirk it ?' absently. The Professor is still a mist-figure to him. It is her chin now. Was there ever such a ravishing round chin ? ' I think so; she generally does.' ' Generally ' awaked for a moment from his trance by shocked surprise. ' Does it often happen ?' 'It was a slip of the tongue, ' she answers, laughing; 'it has happened once or twice before. ' And you ?' The bold wind has loosened a very small strand of her hair, and is blowing it against her cheek. How many years of his life?ten? fifteen? ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217688857 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217688853 |
| Weight | 0.66 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.45 In |
| List Price | $22.26 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 198 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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