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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: 39 CHAPTER III. A STRANGE FRIEND. WELL now, mother, ejaculated Henry Spencer, drawing a long breath of extreme satisfaction, as he put his hands in his pockets, and stretched his feet towards the first fire of the season, lighted in honour of his return, after all, this is what I call snug. He looked out of the nearest window at the garden trees, that were scarce visible in the dusk; then approvingly round the room, where the hearth-light alternated with fits of shade on the panelled wainscot, and about the open corner - cupboard with its china, on the carved buffet in the recess, and the well-known portraits on the walls; while, in a whimsical variety, like one that dallied with familiar matter which it loved, or a grand artist sketching from unconscious sitters, the fire now glowed low down, and threwthe shadows of chairs and figures hugely up, with heads bent flat upon the ceiling, now left a half- transparent gloom, where the eye, in its escape to the soft blue of outer twilight, was lured among exquisite gradations, and sly interchanges, and fine blendings; till again a flame flapped out high above the coals, casting everything in its way against the remote end, on which the dwindled distinctness fluctuated as if it were tapestry shaken by a wind. But Mrs. Spencer poked the fire into an open blaze; for she saw even less of such mute by-play than the half-whistling Harry, to whom it conveyed a mere momentary notion of intense comfort: she only liked them to see each other's faces as they talked, by that old-fashioned sort of country light to which she was still partial, notwithstanding all her mature consciousness of a position to maintain in the world. By-the-by, though, added Harry, quickly, with another glance about him, and he sat up erect to put the inquir...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217312578 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217312578 |
| Weight | 0.48 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.33 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 140 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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