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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: Honble. Mrs. Norton to Ladt Duff Gordon. June, 1849. Such is my mournful cry I hope you have not been as ill as I was, after that hot French play. Lord Melbourne wants to know if you will dine with him on Monday, and will you come to tea on Sunday, here, if you dine anywhere near. The sudden addition of Mr. Cunard from America, and four of Maria Phipps' family from Ceylon, has surrounded my dinner- table to repletion If I can, I shall come to-morrow to see if you will drive; but, as I have twice intended it, and been kept in all day, and Mrs. Childe Mrs. Norton's maid. (that Bride of Abydos ) is lying ill in her sacred garret, do not stay in for me. In a few days I shall bring all my boys' shirts Design to replace the statue of Queen Anne on the wall of the house of Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, Bart. Flaxman. My mother's gift for taming animals had been used on a small mouse which lived behind the wainscot in the drawing-room. It came out regularly every evening at dusk for a biscuit, which it nibbled from her hand, scrambling up on to her lap before the fire. It was my great delight to watch this, and one evening, when sitting motionless on a footstool to watch mousey, I saw my mother's large eyes suddenly grow bigger still as she exclaimed, My dear Eothen, what, are you back She forgot all about the pet mouse, which scurried back to its hole as she rose. I had seen nothing, but my mother declared that Kinglake had come into the back drawing-room, which was divided by an archway with heavy red looped- up curtains from the room we were in, and had walked across. The faithful black boy, Hassan, was summoned, and declared that the doorbell had not rung, and that no one had come in. No one could have come in, he added, without his knowledge, as...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217708357 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217708358 |
| Weight | 0.42 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.29 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 122 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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