Foxglove Manor
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217479103
Paperback|9780217479103
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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: 69 CHAPTER IV. GEORGE HALDANE. The low-lying landscape had vanished in the twilight, and the stars were twinkling in the clear blue sky before Edith rose, dried her eyes, and began to return homeward. The moon had risen, but had yet scarcely freed itself from the tops of the dark woods, through which it shone round and ruddy. As she passed the Vicarage, she paused and looked up at the windows. She felt prompted to steal quietly up to the door and inquire whether Mr. Santleywas any better, but a fear arising from many causes held her back. Besides, the house was in darkness, and every one seemed to have retired to rest. Since Edith had been in the habit of visiting the Vicarage, this was the first occasion on which she had returned home alone. Unreasonable as she acknowledged the suspicion to be, she could not rid herself of the belief that Mr. Santley's indisposition had been, assumed as an excuse for avoiding her. She strove to convince herself that she was foolishly sensitive and jealous, to hope that the change in the vicar's manner was but an illusion of her excited fancy, to feel confident that when she saw him to-morrow she would recognize how childish she had been. Miss Dove was exceedingly fond of music, and during the week she wasaccustomed to spend hours alone in the church, giving utterance to her thoughts and feelings in dreamy voluntaries, which were the fugitive inspiration of the moment, or filling the cool, richly lighted aisles with the impassioned strains of Mozart, Haydn, and Mendelssohn. The sound of the organ could be heard at the Vicarage, and Mr. Santley had been in the habit of going into the church, and conversing with her while she played. It was with the hope that one of his favourite pieces would again bring him to her that, during the af...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217479103 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217479103 |
| Weight | 0.28 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.19 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 78 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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