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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: distressed?and there were such pretty confusions and retreat- ings, and such a manoeuvring to get to the side-table every day, and ' Sir Ulick so terribly determined it should not be.' It was all naturally acted, and by a young pretty actress; ' Miss Darrell.' Ormond, used only to the gross affectation of Dora, did not, good easy man, suspect that there was any affectation in the case. He pitied her so much, that Sir Ulick was certain ' love was in the next degree.' Of this the young lady herselfwas still more secure; and in her security she forgot some of her graceful timidity. It happened, that in standing up for country dances one night, some dispute about precedency occurred. Miss Eliza Darrell was the honourable Miss Darrell ?and some young lady, who was not honourable, in contempt, defiance, neglect, or ignorance, stood above her. The timid Eliza remonstrated in no very gentle voice, and the colour came into her face?the eloquent blood spoke too plainly. She ?the gentle Eliza pushed for her place, and with her honourable elbows made way for herself?for what will not even well-bred belles do in a crowd ? Unfortunately, well-bred beaux are bound to support them. Ormond was on the point of being drawn into a quarrel with the partner of the offending party, when Sir Ulick appearing in the midst, and not seeming to know that anything was going wrong, broke up the intended set of country dances, by insisting upon it, '.that the Miss Darrells had promised him a quadrille, and that they must dance it for him, as there was but just time before supper. Harry, who had seen how little his safety was in the eye of the gentle Eliza, in comparison with the most trifling point of her offended pride, was determined in future not to expose himself to similar danger. The next youn...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217026543 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217026540 |
| Weight | 0.53 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.37 In |
| List Price | $20.49 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 158 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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