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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 that, i-eturned his friend; for if there were eight horses instead of four, it would proclaim a travelling caravan, which would not interest them at all. It is the suggestion of wealth conveyed in the number four (in harness) which makes it as significant as the number geven in magic. Small things agitate small minds, observed Vernon, didactically. Oh, papa Oh, Mr. Vernon exclaimed little Davey, '-there is such a bootiful young lady in the carriage The Professor wiped his mouth and turned round in his chair, while Vernon hurriedly left his seat and joined the child in the bay window, no doubt with the intention of administering admonition and reproof. My dear Davey, he said, it is very wrong to stare at strangers; but at the same time he glanced at the new arrival on his own account. He had seen a good many pretty faces in his time, both in real life and in his friend Felspar's portfolio, who had a talent for drawing them; but neither nature nor art had hitherto shown him one so fair as that which was now presented to him. His glance became permanent; in spite of himself he could not withdraw his eyes. It appears to me, Mr. Vernon, said Mrs. Armytage, severely, that you are falling into the same error for which you have just reproved that child. Your profession ?and being that of letters, she entertained for it a very proper contempt?gives you a great choice of epithets, which, I am told, you are not slow to apply to others. What would you call me if I was to stand and stare at every new comer like that ? Beautiful murmured the unconscious Vernon. Most beautiful, and modesty itself. CHAPTER III. The Ladies' Drawing-room. Who has not experienced, after a brief sojourn, it may be of a few weeks or even days, in a...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217074773 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217074774 |
| Weight | 2.26 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.55 In |
| List Price | $44.54 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 708 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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