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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: would certainly find out that a man's foes are they of his own household.' ' It's all very well to say that. He has been limp as a rag doll in our hands for years?for just so many years as it has been easier for him to give in than to fight. But if I am not mistaken he is now bolstering himself up to strike a blow for liberty?for a solitary vegetable existence such as his soul loveth, for the house to himself all the day untroubled by voice of man, for nice quiet dinners in morning clothes and a smoking coat, with no conversation to disturb his digestion, and no one to rouse him from soothing evening slumbers afterwards.' ' What a hideous picture ' I say uneasily. ' And whereabouts do we come in ?' ' Ah, where, indeed ?' repeats Frances ominously. I turn and face my younger sister with a qualm of anxiety. We are both of us as wideawake, worldly young minxes as ever paced a broad walk in front of a stately Elizabethan mansion on a fine September afternoon. But Frances possesses a shrewder cunning than I, a finer sense for trifles, a sharper understanding of what goes on around her. I sometimes get absorbed in daydreams to the exclusion of my own identity; Frances never. The present and the immediate future are quite enough for her light mind; and in all that concerns herself and her surroundings she has the eye of a hawk and the nose of a pointer. CHAPTER II. A VISITOR. Next morning Mackenzie and his bedding-out present themselves as an unfinished task to my mind. About one o'clock I saunter out of Che house and stand looking over the Dutch garden, which is blazing with every colour of the rainbow in the bright sunshine ?red geraniums, blue lobelia, yellow nasturtiums, purple heliotrope, and gay representatives of every possible hue, with complexions all enha...
| ISBN-13 | 9781458978233 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1458978230 |
| Weight | 1.85 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.29 In |
| List Price | $33.86 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 578 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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