Fernley Manor, by Mrs MacKenzie Daniels
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ISBN13: 9780217474696
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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 III. COURTSHIP. Fkom this time everything seemed to go on smoothly and pleasantly enough at the Manor-house. Edith became every day more reconciled to her chosen destiny, more satisfied with herself, and consequently more charming and agreeable to all around her. Alick was transcendently happy, and it was scarcely possible to witness his deep contentment, his constant gladness of heart, without, in some degree sharingit. His mother looked at him and thanked Heaven for its rich mercies, while she learned to love Edith with a love that had in it all a mother's clinging and enduring tenderness. I believe that Nettia herself, with her life-long goodness and devotion, was not more dear and precious to the heart of her mother than was this stranger of a few weeks, who, almost without an effort, had played the part of an enchantress and appropriated to herself priceless treasures of affection. For Edith, it was certainly a happy time?everybody seemed in league to add to her pleasures, to increase her joys, and cold indeed must have been her heart had it remained insensible to all this genuine and earnest devotion. Sir Stuart Ber- narde was not a frequent visitor at present; he had bought a beautiful quiet horse for Nettia, and was busily engaged in giving her riding lessons, so neither of these two saw much of what was going on at the Manor, and we must hope that they alsowere wandering in their own paradise of love. A lick, although his progress towards recovery was now quite wonderful, did not yet feel equal to join the family, at dinner, at least he said so, but I think it more likely that he did not choose to give up the pleasure to which he had grown accustomed, of seeing Edith come in every evening with her two plates of delicious fruit, and of having her all t...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217474696 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217474691 |
| Weight | 0.42 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.28 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 120 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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