The way women love, by E. Owens Blackburne - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1458939650 ISBN 13: 9781458939654

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1877 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII. HAEEY GABNETT. Moiea has fulfilled her promise to Mrs. MacDermott, and has presided at the organ in the cathedral. Back along the dusty road leading from Weirford have both she and Honor toiled in the broiling sun. In company with the remaining portion of their family these two young women have eaten then dinners, and now each one is enjoying the Sunday afternoon after her own particular fashion. Honor lies on the sofa deeply immersed in the pages of an interesting book. This sensible young person looks much as usual. She wears her customary everyday dress, having taken off her pretty grey alpaca gown immediately after coming from church. So she lies there, shabby and comfortable, with her amusing story, and a large bag of sweetmeats. Not so Moira. The unexpected sunshine is too tempting for her to stay indoors. So she roams restlessly about the garden, her blackand-tan terrier at her heels. She, too, had supplied herself with a book, intending to read in the open air. But the dancing leaves, the tender green of the faintly-waving boughs, and the little, white, fleecy clouds chasing each other over the deep blue sky, were counterattractions not to be withstood. The result is, that the closed book lies on the rustic garden-seat, whilst Moira paces slowly up and down the path at the end of the garden. She, too, wears a thick grey alpaca dress, which tits creaselessly to her well-moulded figure. She has a pretty blue ribbon at her neck, and a knot of the same colour in the ruddy hair, which billows in frizzy coils beneath her old brown straw hat. "Hillo! How are you, Moira?" exclaims a young man, who springs from the lane on to the bank where there is a gap in the hedge. He is about six or seven and twenty, with a good-looking, sunburnt face, sli...

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• ISBN 10: 1458939650
• ISBN 13: 9781458939654
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