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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. A QUIET EVENING. ?ADY LOUISA MABINGTON came of a family which, since the ennobling of its founder, Sir Hugh D'Amorie, by Henry the Second, had taken its full share of most of the titles and dignities which English rank admits of. But for the last two hundred years the family fortunes had so decidedly set towards ebb, that the three last scions of the race, the Ladies Louisa, Marion, and Editha, resolved, before they were well out of the dreary nursery at D'Amorie Fens, that they would marry commoners. The youngest, Editha, died, poor little lady, at the age of seventeen; pining away for love of a handsome young guardsman, who would have given his beard to marry her, could he but have received an income in exchange for that appendage; this being the only and all-potent difficulty in his way. But Editha died, and Jolly Charley, as his brother officers called him, looked so excessively queer, that his creditors, not being romantic, supposed that his affairs must be embarrassed, and camedown upon him in such force, that poor Charley would have been hopelessly ruined, but for Sir William?then plain William?Mabington, who, as he simply expressed it, put the poor little chap straight again; and?what Charley valued more?helped him to a consulship at a Portuguese settlement in West Africa, where, as the miserable youth said, he could die and have done with it It seems almost superfluous to state that he did not die and have done with it. The second sister, the Lady Marion U'Amorie, so perfectly fulfilled the purpose of her youth, that, as she confided to her sister in the early months of her marriage, she was continually imagining that people meant the butler when they spoke of her husband as Mr. Griffiths; but this small difficulty melted away...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217632553 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217632556 |
| Weight | 0.39 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.27 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 112 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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