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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: He was quite right, returned the doctor, calmly. He was thinking of your future and not his own. I honour him for it. Kiss him, child, and come away. He spoke to her and treated her as if she had really been but a child. He held her while she stooped down and kissed the dead man's face; he supported her with his arm into the next room, and, placing her in a chair with her white face hid in her hands, he left her alone with her sorrow. The blow had utterly overwhelmed her, its suddenness had been so far merciful that it had numbed her sense of loss; the retina of her mind was at first only able to retain its last impression. Could it be possible that that was a correct one 1 The wildest nightmare dream she had ever experienced had never suggested to her anything more monstrous than the injunction that had dropped from her dying father's lips. Yet there were the words engraved as it were with some acid that burned into her very core, I wish you to marry Mr. Aird. Presently they began to fade away before the slowly growing perception of what had happened afterwards. He was dead. His voice, his smile, were gone. The kindly gracious man who called her daughter, and whom all the little world she had ever known bowed down to in admiration, was no more. The circumstance of her own desolation did not strike her at first so much as a vague sense of loss. She beheld the general void rather than the empty place beside her. Then came the isolation; the awful sense of her utter loneliness in the world. Not a soul to care for her, not one human being bound to her by tie of blood or nearness. No heart to love her. Here a little hand stole into her own, and a child's voice whispered tenderly in her ear, Don't cry, Ella: don't cry, darling. We are so sorry for you. I do love you so. ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217329224 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217329225 |
| Weight | 2.16 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.49 In |
| List Price | $43.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 678 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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