Author: Georgiana Marion CraikPublisher: Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN: 9781230133201
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Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
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. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ...melancholy little drawing-room all the home I have;" and it was in reply to these sad sentences that Norah was hard-hearted enough to put the inquiry about the period at which Mrs. Elton contemplated returning to that mournful apartment. The question must no doubt have come upon the widow unexpectedly; but she almost instantly proved herself equal to the task of answering it. With a pretty eagerness, as if her hostess's interrogation, instead of taking her aback, had really given her quite a sense of relief--"Oh, my dear, this was just what I was wanting to speak to you about!" she exclaimed. "I was wondering this very morning what you would say if I were to run away. For I must be thinking of it, you know," she said reluctantly, and so much as if she believed that only by great tact and delicacy could she induce Mrs. Langton to bear the prospect of her departure, that Norah almost blushed at the consciousness of her own inhospitality. "I must be going back--soon." "Yes--I suppose so," said Norah. "And yet it is so delightful here. Ah, so delightful! How I shall look back to this time!" "You are very good," said Norah gravely. "Don't you think it would be well for me to drive up one day and see the house before I really go back? I have no doubt it is all right, as Routledge and Ferguson say so, --but yet--if I could just drive up one afternoon, and look at things, you know, and give a few orders, and then return here for--for a last day or two? Do you think I might? Ah, you know it is so dreadful to go away--that is the truth of it!" cried the widow suddenly, with effusion. "I feel as if being here had made such a coward of me. When I think of these weeks, and then contrast them with--with what I have to go back to Oh, Mr. Langton, ..".