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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 II It was now six years since Margery, as has been mentioned, came to live, on her mother's death, with her father's sister-in-law. He, Norman Morrison, had died while she was still scarcely of an age to remember him, and the very faint childish memories which she retained of the tall man with a ringing, jovial laugh were not, it may be mentioned, kept alive or supplemented by fresh information in her new home. For he had not been what is called much of a comfort to his family, having run through his fortune, which had been an adequate one, with extreme celerity; and, while its dissolution was in course of process, having married a lady who was intimately connected with the stage. That she was a girl, in the French phrase, as good as bread, did not in the eyes of his family make this step less of a disgrace; and his marriage had been the final cause of estrangement between him and his brother. Leonard Morrison, good- natured and amiable as he was, would not, probably, if left to his own judgment, have taken sp extreme a view of this step, but he had to reckon with the feelings of his wife, concerning which there was no room for any kind of doubt. Fof in Mrs. Morrison's view there were certain things which no person with the slightest claim to respectability could do, and in the forefront of these was to marry an actress. She did not doubt, perhaps, r that it was possible, in the merciful dispensation of Providence, that actresses could be saved, but that was one of the things that Providence had to manage without her aid. Of course, if an actress attained such eminence that she became, so to speak, a public institution, and was asked to garden-parties, it was a totally different matter; but actresses of the ballet type?which was the type with which Norman had allied...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217857970 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217857973 |
| Weight | 0.75 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.52 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 228 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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