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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 II. PIEST IMPRESSION S. He is very clever, Maggie, said Lucy. She was kneeling on a footstool at Maggie's feet, after placing that dark lady in the large crimson-velvet chair. I feel sure you will like him. I hope you will. I shall be very difficult to please, said Maggie, smiling, and holding up one of Lucy's long curls, that the sunlight might shine through it. A gentleman who thinks he is good enough for Lucy must expect to be sharply criticised. Indeed, he's a great deal too good for me. And sometimes, when he is away, I almost think it can't really be that he loves me. But I can never doubt it when he is with me?though I couldn't bear any one but you to know that I feel in that way, Maggie. Oh, then, if I disapprove of him, you can Vol. m. B give him up, since you are not engaged, said Maggie, with playful gravity. I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, said Lucy, too thoroughly preoccupied to notice Maggie's joke; and I should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is. Sometimes I am quite frightened lest Stephen should say that he has spoken to papa; and from something that fell from papa the other day, I feel sure he and Mr Guest are expecting that. And Stephen's sisters are very civil to me now. At first, I think they didn't like his paying me attention; and that was natural. It does seem out of keeping that I should ever live in a great place like the Park House?such a little, insignificant thing as I am. But people are not expected to be large in proportion to the houses they live in, like snails, said Maggie, laughing. Pray, are Mr Guest's sisters giantesses ? 0 no; and not handsome?that is, not very, said Lucy, half-penitent at...
| ISBN-13 | 9781458889980 |
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| ISBN-10 | 145888998X |
| Weight | 0.53 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.36 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 156 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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