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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: J and to avoid all scrutiny, for she had not yet entirely vered from her confusion. With that quickness of resource in which the most artless woman is seldom deficient, she ran, therefore, to the window, and, seeing a cart approaching the house, expressed her opinion that it was bringing the remainder ot the East India Madeira whicli her father was expecting. The device succeeded to admiration; Frampton hastily wheeled his gouty chair to the window, the Doctor put on Ins spectacles and threw up the sash, the two entered into an eager debate, as to whether it was the Madeira or not, and, in the midst of the moving and discussion, Fannv stole unperceived out of the room. CHAPTER II. Thy words are daggers?spare them then. Alas, How short is woman's triumph o'er herself A brief uncertain time she may o'erpasg Her sex's limits?for a while may soar To realms beyond her nature; but full soon She sinke in weakness down?as I do now G. F. RlCHlBBSOK. Mhs. Pewguin, whose admiration of Henry had rapidly increased at every fresh interview, and who anticipated no small share of eclat and reflected celebrity from his being domiciliated at Grotto-house, trumpeted forth his merits in every quarter, and found many a gossip ready to exaggerate her own hyperboles. Anxious, more especially, to bestow upon him that species of distinction to which she herself attached the most importance, she magnified his supposed wealth, and each hearer made liberal additaments, until, in a short time, and upon no other basis than Henry's own simple statement that he was in independent circumstances, his fortune was bruited abroad as something unprecedented and prodigious. Great riches, in the possession of a generous, handsome young bachelor, exercise a sort of magical influence, w...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217123426 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217123422 |
| Weight | 0.59 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.41 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 176 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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