The Opened Shutters
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9781153794336
Paperback|9781153794336
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Excerpt: ... the boatman to go into the basin and land at the nearest point to the farm. Not so. Benny steered his craft for the same rock-sheltered point where he had landed Miss Derwent the last time. Sylvia ran along the shore toward them. "You can still get inside the basin," she called impulsively, not realizing that the possibilities of the locality were an old story to Benny. The latter looked up inquiringly toward the voice, but it was the passenger who replied, "No doubt we could, but we have to get out of the basin again, thats the trouble." With these words the speaker, a little woman in a shade hat, sprang up and scrambled ashore. Sylvia paused. Why should she have supposed that the blue-eyed Benny never carried any passenger except Miss Derwent? This one wore a dress of dark blue denim, and her hat was tied securely under the chin by a ribbon which passed over its crown. The stranger looked up from under its shade and peered at Sylvia through her eye-glasses, at first indifferently, and then with a start. "Can this be Sylvia Lacey " she exclaimed, hastening toward the bareheaded girl. Sylvia had caught up her books and pillow and now stood with her arms full, her color coming and going as she braced herself. All the scene in the hotel returned. The hurt and soreness clamored to be felt again. It was a moment of acute struggle. Before her eyes the Tide Mill rose, its closed shutters resolutely hugging past injuries and excluding the besieging sunlight that searched every crevice to pour in warmth and light. Miss Martha read something of her nieces thoughts. She had undertaken this visit with dread, and the sudden encounter made her rather tremulous; but, above all things, Benny Merritt must suspect nothing. "Its the very first day I could come over, my dear," she said hurriedly, "what with home cares and a rough sea; Im not the best of sailors, but Ive thought of you often. Now Benny," turning to him, ...
| ISBN-13 | 9781153794336 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1153794330 |
| Weight | 0.57 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.39 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 168 pages |
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| Published On | 2010-03-01 |
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