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Christy Carew, by the author of 'Hon. miss Ferrard'.
Christy Carew by the author of 'Hon miss Ferrard' Author:Mary Hartley Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: She had a piece of sewing in her fingers, but very soon the sewing lay unheeded on her knees, and her eyes wandered to the outer world below. She leaned forward ... more »to try if she could see Esther, and was- just in time to catch a glimpse of her tall, slim figure as she turned the corner. Lanty was walking with her, his face turned to- hers so persistently, that he stepped into a huge pool of liquid mud. Now they were both gone from her view. All seemed still, and she took out the paper and began to read it. It was more the nature of a memorandum than a letter, and ran as follows : ' You will get the book you speak of at O'Dufly's shop, in Exchange Court. Two shillings is enough for it second-hand. What do you want twenty-five shillings for ? I have not got it; and if I had I should not lend it to you. I hope youhave not been playing cards with that fellow Longleats again. I warned you last time that I never would help you again in this way. What business have you with those fellows, they are all too well off for you ? Your account of the Mansion House ball was very amusing; it must have been good fun. Do keep out of mischief, and mind your work ; you ought to take that Hillyard Prize. No ; I have not been to the Alhambra, or any where else either; and if you want " news " of London I recommend you to take the textit{Morning Post or the textit{Court Journal, or ask your omniscient friend, Mr. Dawson, whom you seem to see so often. 'Yours, etc., ' Antony Sugrue.' Now she had read it, read it word for word, slowly down to the thick black signature. There was a postscript below?ablotted, evidently hurriedly written postscript. ' I am glad to hear what you tell me of ?now is that ' Mrs.' or ' Miss ' Carew, it certainly was difficult to tell which?textit{' Give her my rega...« less