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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: But it was not of politics he was thinking. The letters that he had faintly pencilled there?that he was still wistfully regarding, as though they could show him things far away ? formed the word YOLANDE. It was like a lover. CHAPTER III. PREPARATIONS FOR FLIGHT. Next morning his nervous anxiety to get Yolande away at once out of London was almost pitiable to witness, though he strove as well as he could to conceal it from her. IIe had a hundred excuses. Oatlands was becoming very pretty at that time of the year. There was little of importance going on in the House. London was not good for the roses in her cheeks, lie himself would be glad of a breather up St. George's Hill, or a quiet stroll along to Chertsey. And so forth, and so forth. Yolande was greatly disappointed. She had been secretly nursing the hope that at last she might be allowed to remain in London, in some capacity or another, as the constant companion of her father. She had enough sense to see that the time consumed in his continually coming to stay with her in the country must be a serious thing for a man in public life. She was in a dim sort of way afraid that these visits might become irksome to him, even though he himself should not be aware of it. Then she had her ambitions too. She had a vague impression that the country at large did not quite understand and appreciate her father; that the people did not know him as she knew him. How could they, if he were to be forever forsaking his public duties in order to gad about with a girl just left school ? Never before, Yolande was convinced, had the nation such urgent need of his services. There were a great many things wrong which he could put right; of that she had no manner of doubt. The government were making a tyrannical use of a big majority to go...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217150439 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217150438 |
| Weight | 1.32 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.91 In |
| List Price | $26.06 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 410 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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