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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 III. Mr. Fred Lyvett. It is possible that even at this early stage, a faint idea of some mistake in the training of their daughter began to dawn upon May and his wife. That Sophia was no longer one of themselves, and never would be again, was easy to be seen. In habits, manners, education and ideas, she wag above them; as Mrs. May might have expressed it, she had been lifted into a different spear. And what could come of it ? speaking only of the feelings. Nothing but cruel disappointment to themselves, and bitter mortification to her. Sophia had been brought up to be ashamed of her parents; or, rather, the shame was the result. They had educated her to be a lady (according to their notions of one), and really poor Sophia was not to be blamed if she responded to the rearing. What her future was to be, what they should do with her, and where she was to live, gave concern to Mrs. May. But for the foolish pursuit of that low literature which had warped her mind, she would have been rather a sensible woman j certainly she was a well-meaning one. Sophia plainly told her?and the tears stood in the girl's eyes as she said it? that she could never reconcile herself to sit in the kitchen: she could not. Her meals she was obliged to take in it; but, after each one she retired to her own room in the attic. When the doors were shut and the shutters closed at night, she would then come back to the kitchen, sure of not being seen there by the world. This can't go on, sighed Mrs. May to her husband. Whatever will be done with her? The poor child will eat her heart away. A possible solution to it was to dawn. Not just at first, but very soon. It came on by degrees; and even Mrs. May did not dare to dwell upon it?the fortune would be too good for Sophia. Whether t...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217739368 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217739369 |
| Weight | 0.89 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.61 In |
| List Price | $22.16 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 272 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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