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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: ' It is not at all impossible that at no distant date you will find the whole island marked out in that way for you, my lord, ' was the quiet rejoinder, 'and by less friendly hands than mine.' The young man lifted his hat?not only in sign of departure; it was a trick he had on the rare occasions when the sense of his true position came over him, the instinct to remove a weight from his brow?and turned away without a word. ' Agnes, come here ' continued the money-lender. His eldest daughter, who was still talking with Grace, at once left her to obey his summons. She was a tall, fair woman of thirty years of age, but looked older; her features were good, and even classical, but her lips were thin and straight; her hair resembled hay, and there was not a luxuriant crop of it; her eyes were a cold blue, usually lustreless; her eyebrows so faint that through them could be discerned the ' thin red line' by which the historian on a well-known occasion described the British infantry. 'What is it, papa?' ' Keep by your sister's side this afternoon, Agnes; I don't wish strangers to talk with her.' ' You mean by Grace's side, I suppose ?' ' Well, I suppose so, ' he answered with curt contempt. ' I should think Philippa was old enough to take care of herself.' It was not a pretty speech, for there was only a year or two between his eldest and his second daughter; but it was not Mr. Tremenhere's habit to make pretty speeches, except to his little Fairy. CHAPTER III. THE MEMORANDUM. Among the many things that puzzled people who had the privilege of knowing the Tremenhere family?and some people who hadn't, for Josh and his affairs were much talked about?was why the two marriageable Miss Tremenheres did not take advantage of their position. Miss Agnes has been intr..
| ISBN-13 | 9780217074742 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021707474X |
| Weight | 1.65 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.15 In |
| List Price | $33.49 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 514 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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