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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 XIX. A MONTH OF SUNDAYS. was possibly strange, but certainly true, that the two young lovers were all the happier for not being plunged at once into the question of their marriage; that v/as so evidently impracticable at present, that they were content to let the matter rest, and, like two children on a summer day, walk hand in hand, they knew not whither, nor how long. Huldah and the doctor had, emphatically, that gift of family reticence, born of respect and trust, which maintains the harmony of so many English households; they no more thought of ruthlessly dragging up these two glad hearts for inspection, than they would have been guilty of an impertinence out of doors. They simply alluded to the engagement by saying, You must not feel bound to us in any way, you know, children. The natural result of which was, that the children, in dismissing the subject, agreed as a matter of course that the home of the elders must be secured before they thought of their own. Thanks probably to the long, thorough rest, Luigia's voice came back, richer, stronger than before, and, for a wonder, the public had not forgotten her. It seemed that there was something unique in this young singer; growing, perhaps, out of her singular mixture of races, which gave her the combination of Welsh simplicity and earnestness, Italian passion and grace, and what she would herself have disowned, French tact. Miss Rameau's return, at her concert, was one of the events of the season, said the papers, and realised enough, said Luigia joyfully, to enable the little household to forget all about money for a while. Ted held to his resolve not to paint for a year at least, but said that he had relinquished his first idea of crossing- sweeping, as too ambitious, and meant to try teac...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217632591 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217632599 |
| Weight | 0.42 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.28 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 120 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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