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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. In the mean time Laird Ralston's part in the drama was encreasing in difficulties, equivoques, and misunderstandings. Miss Sorn, under the sagacious tuition of her aunt, carried her head, perhaps, a little too loftily; in fact, she overdid the dignity she had assumed, and wore towards him a countenance apparently darkened by the sense of having been offended, instead of being garnished with that maidenly coyness which she intended to display, and which at once forbids and invites solicitation. The Laird himself, goaded by the exhortations of Miss Sibby, nevertheless persevered with as much energy as could reasonably be expected from one who considered the labour of love-makinga teasing trouble; it could not, however, be said that his suit made much progress. At last both his kinswoman and the Minister's wife were moved at the same time, by some occult influence of destiny, to hold a consultation on the subject. Indeed, the impetus by which they were directed, in its coincidences, was so evidently the work of Fate, that the two ladies met on the bean-field path between the Manse and the Gowans, when going forth in a bright calm frosty morning to see each other, and to consider in what way the business could be best brought to a proper conclusion. Having congratulated each other on the beauty of the winter, Miss Sibby, who was the most alert and adroit of the two, said, I was just so far on my way to call on Miss Sorn, having become anxious concerning her health, as she has of late, notwithstanding the seasonable weather, been rather abstemious in her visits. And I, said Mrs. Keckle, was just going to inquire for you; but, not to prevent you from seeing Miss Sorn, I '11 walk back to the Manse. Accordingly they proceeded together; in going alo...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217562522 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217562523 |
| Weight | 0.55 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.38 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 164 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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