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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 H. Try Politics. Now, George, what have you got to tell me ? Lady Frances, daughter of the famous Earl of Clovelly, once, twice, three times Premier, and of the even more illustrious Countess, the last of our great political ladies, was also the young widow of that distinguished statesman, old Sir Chantrey Bohun, who died in harness as Secretary of State for India. She was a year older than myself, a difference which, when we were children together, and next-door country neighbors, gave her a certain superiority over me. She married, for political reasons, at the age of eighteen; her friends were all political friends. It was generally understood that, after a decent interval of two or three years' widowhood, she would marry a second time, and play over again the rdle so admirably enacted by her mother. For the moment she closed her town-house, and when she was not in the country lived quietly in a flat, seeing few people. She was sitting beside the window, into which poured a flood of vaporous sunshine from the west, for it was a day in early April, when the sun sets about seven. The warm, soft light wrapped her as in a cloud, under which her lace was soft and luminous. Truly, amost lovely woman, but to me not a woman who inspired love. These brotherly affections sometimes interfere with things that might have been. Sit down, George, and tell me exactly all about it. I would rather stand. Well, to begin: I told you, Frances, about that astounding father of mine?how he secretly gambled and speculated and lost money on the Stock Exchange. Yes; you told me, and it was the most amazing thing that I ever heard. Your father, of all men The quietest man in the world?meek, even, if one may suggest such a quality in a man. Yes, decidedly meek. Whene...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217092401 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217092403 |
| Weight | 0.40 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.28 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 116 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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