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Author: Ethel Lillian Voynich Publisher: Nabu Press ISBN: 9781293467329 Category : Languages : en Pages : 418
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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ An Interrupted Friendship: By E. L. Voynich Ethel Lillian Voynich Macmillan, 1910
Author: Ethel Lillian Voynich Publisher: Theclassics.Us ISBN: 9781230283333 Category : Languages : en Pages : 88
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III Within the next seven years many things changed at Marteurelles. The household gradually divided itself into two sections; almost, Rene thought sometimes when he came home for the holidays, into two camps. Father and daughter formed a defensive alliance in the study; aunt and nephew consoled one another in the salon, outsiders both. Marguerite had risen up in revolt against all authority, and had completed her emancipation with a thoroughness which appalled Renews conventional young soul. She would have nothing to do with prayers or pious books, and utterly refused to confess her sins to any priest. She had worried her father into teaching her Latin and Greek, that she might read scholastic philosophy; and now, instead of making toilet bags for nuns, picked the dogmas of the Church to pieces with relentless logic and an impregnable lack of imagination. "She is horribly clever," the marquis said to Ren6 one day. "She learns so fast that I have all I can do to keep pace with her demands. To teach her is like being cross-examined by a crimi nal lawyer; she seizes the weak point before one has time to enunciate the argument." ' Only the weak point? Never the strong one?" "Very seldom. It is the most destructive mind that I have ever come across. If she had been a boy and not a cripple, she would have a career before her at the bar; but what use will her brain be to a bedridden girl? She would be happier like your Aunt Angelique." "Is aunt happy now, do you think?" "I believe so. She was rather depressed for some time, as you know, and worried about all our souls; but she has grown reconciled to things the last year or two. Marguerite is growing up, you see, and getting more tolerant." "Or more self-controlled," Ren6 answered, ...