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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: suddenly there came the words, ? the dignity of Princes. And then I knew, without thinking twice, that this young lady could never have won the dignity of the Manor-pew, unless she had been a great deal more than the niece of Jenny Marker. In a moment, too, my senses came to back up this perception, and I began to revile myself for thinking such a thought of her. Not that Mrs. Marker was of any low condition, for she wore two rings and a gold watch-chain, and was highly respected by every one; but she cheapened all the goods she bought, even down to an old red herring, and she had been known to make people take garden-stuff in exchange for goods, or else forego her custom. The memory of these things grieved me with my own imagination. I was very loth to go?as you will see was natural?without so much as one good look at the sweet face which had blessed me; but everything seemed to turn against me, and the light grew worse and worse. Moreover Sam Henderson stared so boldly, having none of my diffidence, that Mrs. Marker came forward sharply, and jerked the rings of the red baize curtain, so that he could see only that. At this he turned red, and pulled up his collar, and I felt within myself a glow of goodwill for the punching of his head. And perhaps he had grounds for some warm feeling toward me, for thn reason that I being more to the left could still get a glimpse round the corner of the curtain, which acted as a total drop of scenery for him. When the sermon was finished in its natural course, the sky was getting very dark outside, and the young men and women were on best behaviour to take no advantage of tho gloom in going out. For as yet we had no great gas-works, such as impair in the present generation the romance and enlargement of an evening service. So that when ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217229531 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217229530 |
| Weight | 1.33 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.92 In |
| List Price | $25.60 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 412 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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