Love's Labor Won
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217859622
Paperback|9780217859622
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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: this was the last of September. With this information, Colonel Compton returned to Richmond. Extreme was the astonishment of the family upon hearing this; and when month after month passed, and no tidings of the missing one arrived, and no clue to her retreat or to her fate was gained, the grief and dismay of her friends could .only be equalled by the wonder and conjecture of society at large, upon the strange subject of Marguerite De Lan- cie's disappearance. CHAPTER III. THE FUGITIVE BELLE. What's become of Marguerite, Since she gave us all the slip, Chose land travel, or sea faring, Box and trunk, or staff and scrip, Rather than pace up and down Any longer this old townT Who'd hare guessed it from her Up, Or her brow's accustomed bearing, On the night she thus took ship, Or started landward, little caring.?Brotmlng. Christmas approached, and the gay belles of Richmond were preparing for the festivities of that season. Colonel Compton with his family and a few chosen friends went down to Compton Lodge to spend the holidays in country hospitalities, hunting, ete. The party had been there but a few days, when, on Christmas morning, while the family and their guests were assembled in the old, oak-panneled, front parlor, before breakfast, and Colonel Compton was standing at a side table, presiding over an immense old family punch-bowl, from which he ladled out goblets of frothy egg-nog to the company, the door was quietly opened, and without announcement Marguerite De Lancie entered, saying, A merry Christmas friends. Marguerite Marguerite exclaimed?first Cornelia, and then all the young ladies that were present, pressing forward to meet her, while the matrons and the gentlemen of the party, with less vehemence but equal ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217859622 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217859623 |
| Weight | 0.82 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.56 In |
| List Price | $20.49 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 248 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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