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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 THE LEGACY Audeey and Miss Ingate were in the late Mathew Moze's study, fascinated?as much unconsciously as consciously?by the thing which since its owner's death had grown every hour more mysterious and more formidable?the safe. It was a fine afternoon. The secondary but still grandiose enigma of the affair, Mr. Cowl, could be heard walking methodically on the gravel in the garden. Mr. Cowl was the secretary of the National Reformation Society. Suddenly the irregular sound of crunching receded. He's gone somewhere else, said Audrey. I'm so relieved, said Miss Ingate. I hope he's gone a long way off. Are you? murmured Audrey, with an air of surprised superiority. But in secret Audrey felt just as relieved as Miss Ingate, despite the fact that, her mother being prostrate, she was the mistress of the situation, and could have ordered Mr. Cowl to leave, with the certainty of being obeyed. She was astonished at her illogical sensations, and she had been frequently so astonished in the previous four days. For example, she was free; she knew that she could impose herself on her mother; never again would she be the slave of an unreasoning tyrant; yet she was gloomy and without hope. She had hated the unreasoning tyrant; yet she felt very sorry for him because he wasdead. And though she felt very sorry for him, she detested hearing the panegyrics upon him of the village, and particularly of those persons with whom he had quarrelled; she actually stopped Miss Ingate in the midst of an enumeration of his good qualities?his charm, his smile, his courtesy, his integrity, et cetera; she could not bear it. She thought that no child had ever had such a strange attitude to a deceased parent as hers to Mr. Moze. She had anticipated the inquest with an aw...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217121415 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217121411 |
| Weight | 0.89 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.61 In |
| List Price | $20.12 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 272 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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