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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: But I shall see you on Tuesday Hilda exclaimed, wondering and troubled at her manner. Ah returned Madelaine, with a shiver, I had forgotten?on Tuesday. CHAPTER III. TWO YOUNG HEARTS. HE/2/if was over. It had been a very happy day to Hilda; the last hour the pleasantest of all, for Julian Las- celles had danced with her and taken her into the refreshment tent. Sea- forth, captured by some privateering married woman, had not been able to get near and interrupt their conversation?a proceeding to which Master Charles, in his youthful impatience and ignorance of feminine nature, was rather given. Hilda had known Charles Seaforth all her life; he had been her devoted cavalier from the days when they were little more than babies, off in beautiful Florence, and from that time to this had never faltered in his allegiance; so that perhaps she had unconsciously grown to receive it as a right rather more than was exactly just to the young man. With Mr. Lascelles she had been acquainted less than two months, but, as Hilda looked back over the time, it seemedlong, though in its passing it had appeared to possess wings. It was odd, but very natural, that though the passage of these weeks brought to Hilda no explanation with her own soul in regard to her feelings for this comparative stranger, it made the nature of her sentiments towards Charles Sea- forth perfectly clear to her mind. She comprehended that Seaforth loved her, not in the old boyish fashion which had been so pleasant a few years previous, but as a man loves the woman whom he seeks to woo for his wife. She knew, too?or thought she knew?that such a consummation of his dream must ever remain an impossibility, though she did not ask herself why, and, indeed, in many ways had grown of late singularly...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217860642 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217860648 |
| Weight | 1.12 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.77 In |
| List Price | $22.44 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 344 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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