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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: So, hopefully and gratefully, Letty learnt her lessons, and in her poor little way tried to educate herself to be something higher than a servant in the social scale; and stole what time she could still to read the books that were dearer to her than lesson-books; and through all else that she did, whether it were work or play, held steadily to a devotion that no one suspected, and bowed herself when no one knew it before the shrine that she had set up in her simple heart. VOL. I. E chapter{{Section 450 CHAPTER III. /THHE years go past so quickly when to-day .- is like yesterday, and to-morrow is like to-day, and we rise each morning to the renewal of a monotonous life that, except for the variations of the seasons, knows no change?where the same faces always greet us, and the same voices (heard so long that we almost forget how a day will come when they will be heard no more) fall, quiet and unaltered, on our ear. For three fresh springs the leaves had come out newly on the beech-tree hedge, and Mr. Trelawney still took his daily walk beside it, unchanged in look, or garb, orgait. He was three years older, but you hardly could have told that he was older: the grey had not begun to come yet into his hair; the thin, thoughtful face seemed scarcely to have gained an added line. For these three quiet years, as for many a quiet year before, his life had gone on in its accustomed unbroken, familiar, undisturbed groove. It was undisturbed still on this pleasant, mild March morning, though the elements of change, unknown to him, had begun at last to stir in it. On this day it happened that he rose feeling an uncomfortable dizziness and shivering. He had not been quite himself the previous evening, and had gone ?which was unusual with him?early to bed, but his sleep had...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217705332 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217705332 |
| Weight | 0.33 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.23 In |
| List Price | $8.00 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 94 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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