Strawberry Hill, by Clara VanCe PDF Download

Author: Mary Andrews Denison
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230372402
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Languages : en
Pages : 70

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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. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ... unexpectedly, with a friend, but is to be back again in a week. Then she is going for good, did you know it? I really don't know what to think about Milly; I have had such hopes of her; she seems determined not to/ think of anything beyond the present. And yet she might be such a happy, useful Christian! It seems her uncle wants to adopt her, and Doctor says he is a mere worldling, --a man whose sole happiness is placed in riches, and that he is quite unscrupulous as to the manner of acquiring them. I don't want poor, vain, little Milly to go there." "She has talked with me about it," Martha said, "and once seemed very undecided; but the last time she spoke of it she had fully made up her mind to go." "Well, we must hope for the best. You heard, I suppose, that Blanchard has decided to go into the ministry. Everybody approves of it but Mary; she seems very unhappy about it." "More shame for her," said mother Bright, coming into the room and overhearing the last remark of the doctor's wife. "A proud and happy woman would I have been, if my boy, instead of going into mercantile life, had chosen the ministry; yes, even in his far-off home. But we can't help these things, can we, if we try ever so hard?" "I don't see that we can," said the doctor's wife, smiling. Doctor Campbell came in. "The child is better," were his first words, as the baby lay on Martha's knee; "but I am afraid we shall have the nurse sick, after this." "No fear of me," said Martha, bravely. "You know very little about it," replied the doctor, as his eyes met those of his wife. "I speak now as your physician. Little Lilian is doing very well, and you need not hesitate to leave her for a time. Mother Bright will see that she wants for nothing. My chaise is outside, and my...