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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 edition. Excerpt: ...I should have known you," said Cara, "if I had met you anywhere. It is quite true; but you are just like Oswald all the same." "What is quite true?" Oswald was a great deal more vain than Cara was, being older and having had more time to see the effect of his good looks. He laughed and did not push his question any further. It was a pleasant beginning. He had his mothefs sympathetic grace of manner, and, Cara felt at once, understood her, and all her difficulties at a glance, as Mrs. Meredith had done. How far this was true may be an open question; but she was convinced of it, which for the moment was enough. "We did not come downstairs so ceremoniously last time we met," he said. "When you came for the nursery tea, with nurse behind you. I think Edward held the chief place in your affections then. He was nearer your age; but thank Heaven that fellow is out of the way, and I have a little time to make the running before he comes back " Cara did not know what it meant to "make the running," and was puzzled. She was not acquainted with any slang except that which has crept into books, but an expression of pleasure-in Edwards absence appalled her. "I remember him best," she said, "because he was more near my age; but you were both big boys---too big to care for a little thing like me. I remember seeing you come in with a latch-key one afternoon and open the door--ahl" said Cara, with a little cry. It had been on the afternoon of her mothers death when she had been placed at the window to look for her fathers coming, and had seen the two big boys in the afternoon light, and watched them, with an interest which quite distracted her...
| ISBN-13 | 9781153228916 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1153228912 |
| Weight | 0.33 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.23 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 94 pages |
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| Published On | 2010-01-01 |
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