Ravenshoe (German Edition)
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217747172
Paperback|9780217747172
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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: 15 mother, and found himself, at the age of thirty-seven, master 01 Ravenshoe and master of himself. He felt the loss of the old folks most keenly, more keenly than that of his wife. He seemed without a stay or holdfast in the world, for he was a poorly educated man, without resources; and so he went on moping and brooding until good old Father Clifford, who loved him dearly, got alarmed, and recommended travels. He recommended Rome, the cradle of the faith, and to Rome he went. He stayed at Rome a year; at the end of which time he appeared suddenly at home with a heautiful young wife on his arm. As Father Clifford, trembling and astonished, advanced to lay his hand upon her head, she drew up, laughed, and said, Spare yourself the trouble, my dear sir; I am a Protestant. I have had to tell you all this, in order to show you how it came about that Densil, though a Papist, bethought of marrying a Protestant wife to keep up a balance of power in his house. For, if he had not married this lady, the hero of this book would never have been born; and this greater proposition contains the less, that if he had never been born, his history would never have been written, and so this book would have had no existence. CHAPTER H. SUPPLEMENTARY TO THE FOEEGOING. The second Mrs. Ravenshoe was the handsome dowerless daughter of a Worcester squire, of good standing, who, being blessed with an extravagant son, and six handsome daughters, had lived for several years abroad, finding society more accessible, and consequently, the matrimonial chances of the Petersham girls proportionately greater than in England. She was a handsome proud woman, not particularly clever, or particularly agreeable, or particularly anything, except particularly self-possessed. She had been long ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217747172 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217747175 |
| Weight | 1.33 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.92 In |
| List Price | $26.81 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 412 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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