Earlier Stories Author:Frances Hodgson Burnett General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1891 Original Publisher: Scribner Subjects: History / General 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 Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-B... more »ooks.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. A GLOVE. But before many days had passed, Lady Laura found room for more than temporary interest or temporary annoyance. She found room for a surprise, which became in a short space of time something like amazement. She would have thought very little of Mr. Charn- ley's guest after the first evening of their meeting, had she not found herself compelled to think of him through the agency of a rather unexpected fact, which forced itself upon her notice. This young man of whom, gentleman as he was, in her calm, intolerant pride she had thought little more than of one of her guardian's lackeys ; this young man, whose father was a tradesman, and whose grand- father she had heard Mr. Charnley say was an excellent farmer; this young man was, in the most unprccedentcdly matter-of-fact manner, falling into the same position as Geof- frey Treherne himself. She could not understand how it had come about, and far less could she avoid it; she could only begin, as time progressed, to feel that it was so. It would have been the most impossible of tasks to repulse him. His genial, hearty nature was not easily chilled; and even Treherne found his frigid stateliness met with a careless gayety that perfectly overwhelmed him. Lindsay's honest, undisguised admiration showed itself in every action, and Lady Laura found herself sheerly helpless against him. It was useless to endeavor to chill him; he clearly was determined to persevere in sublime disregard of the fact that Geoffrey Treherne and William the Conqueror stood between him and ' the object of...« less