Thomas Wingfold, Curate
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ISBN13: 9780217405539
Paperback|9780217405539
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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. THE DINERS. RS. RAMSHORN, Helen's aunt, was past the middle age oi woman; had been handsome and pleasing; had long ceased to be either; had but sparingly recognized the fact, yet had recognized it, and felt aggrieved. Hence in part it was that her mouth had gathered that peevish and wronged expression which tends to produce a moral nausea in the beholder. If she had but known how much uglier in the eyes of her own fellow-mortals her own discontent had made her, than the severest operation of the laws of mortal decay could have done, she might have tried to think less of her wrongs and more of her privileges. As it was, her own face wronged her own heart, which was still womanly, and capable of much pity?seldom exercised. Her husband had been dean of Halystone, a man of sufficient weight of character to have the right influence in the formation of his wife's. He had left her tolerably comfortable as to circumstances, but childless. She loved Helen, whose even imperturbability had by mere weight, as itmight seem, gained such a power over her that she was really mistress in the house without either of them knowing it. Naturally desirous of keeping Helen's fortune in the family, and having, as I say, no son of her own, she had yet not far to look to find a cousin capable, as she might well imagine, of rendering himself acceptable to the heiress. He was the son of her younger sister, married, like herself, to a dignitary of the church, a canon of a northern cathedral. This youth, therefore, George Bascombe by name, whose visible calling at present was to eat his way to the bar, she often invited to Glas- ton; and on this Friday afternoon he was on his way from London to spend the Saturday and Sunday with the two ladies. The cousins liked each other, had not ha...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217405539 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217405533 |
| Weight | 1.37 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.94 In |
| List Price | $12.85 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 424 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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