Angel A Sketch in Indian Ink Author:Bithia Mary Croker General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1901 Original Publisher: Methuen Subjects: History / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General... more » Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV ANGEL IN EXCELSIS TDUNCTUAL to the moment, Philip Gascoigne '' arrived to take his little cousin for the promised drive, and Angel's eyes shone like stars, when she descried his smart dogcart spinning up the approach. Sally Lunn or " Mad" Sally, a good-looking bay, stud-bred, in hard condition, enjoyed the reputation of being the fastest trotter as well as the most hot- tempered and eccentric animal in the station; only those blessed with a cool head, and no nerves, were competent to manage her. Here she came, pulling double, and tossing flecks of foam over her bright brass harness. Mrs Wilkinson felt a secret thrill of thankfulness that it was not about to be her lot, to sit behind this excitable creature, the author of a lengthy chapter of accidents. However, Mrs Wilkinson's little daughter did not share these fears. She had been dressed and ready for an hour, and now ran quickly down the steps, in a clear starched frock, her hat restored, her hair elaborately crimped, climbed into the cart, with the agility of a monkey, and took her place with the dignity of a queen. It is true, that her shapely little black legs dangled in a somewhat undignified fashion. Nevertheless she declined a footstool with a gesture of contempt, -- nor was Sally disposed to linger. In another moment, the dogcart had swung out of the gate, and was humming down the road at the rate of eleven miles an hour. Angel, very upright with her hair streaming behind her, elation in her pose; Gascoigne, s...« less