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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: so long concealed a matter of so much importance. In fact, he lost no time in mounting his hobby-horse, and long before he went to bed that night, he had furnished the great romance of Grypherwast with a very pretty episode from Thorwold-hall. Chapter; iv. Boldly and gaily, howeVer, as Reginald could dream, he hung his head very sheepishly next day, when he found that the long-deserted gallery, over against the vicar's pew, was really filled with a blaze of fine ladies and gentlemen. In the course of the sermon he stole a few glances, and I believe had sense enough to satisfy himself that none of the bright eyes of that high sphere were in any danger of being fixed upon him. But, in truth, Reginald was an odd mixture, and there is no saying what sillinesses might have, passed over his fancy. The young squire and his bride, ere they got into their carriage, received very graciously the congratulations of Mr. Dalton; and Reginald heard after they came home, not a little to his discomposure it may be supposed, that his father had accepted for them both an invitation to dine in the course of the week at Thorwold. Indeed, I take it our young gentleman wasted about as many meditations on that dinner, ere he went to it, as a young lady generally does on the coming ball at which she is to come out. It must be quite unnecessary to say, that he bestowed on the toilet of that great day a double, ay, a treble portion both of time and attention, and almost as needless to add, that when he had done, his appearance was infinitely more awkward than usual. Had Reginald presented himself at that time in any company, drest just as he was accustomed to be when he was wandering at his ease among the woods, he could scarcely have failed to be regarded with some admira- tion. He was natu...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217543460 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217543464 |
| Weight | 0.59 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.41 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 176 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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