Lady Car The Sequel of a Life Author:Mrs. Oliphant General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1889 Original Publisher: Longmans, Green 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-Books.com where you can... more » select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV The house was found after a great many not unpleasurable researches -- little expeditions, now and then, which Lady Caroline and her husband took together, with reminiscences of their first honeymoon travels, which had been so sweet. She forgot, as a woman is so ready to do, all the little deceptions and disappointments of the intervening years, and when they found at last the very thing they wanted the elation and exhilaration of a new beginning entered fully into Carry's mind. If Edward had shown himself too contented with his life, too little ambitious, too indifferent to any stimulant, there was something in the fact of being unsettled, of having no certain motive of his life, of moving about constantly fromone place to another, which would very well account for that. But when he was no longer subject to interruption, when his time and his thoughts were free, who could doubt that a new spring of energy would burst forth ? In the old days, when they had first met, he had been full of projects. Was not that one of the charms that had caught her girlish heart ? He had so fully meant to make himself a great influence in the world, to help to sway the course of events, to make the world a better place. They had talked of that before even they talked of love -- and her enthusiasm had been roused and fired by his. He had told her -- how well she remembered ! -- that it was a mistake of dull minds to think that it was hard to obtain an influence upon one's fellow- men. On the contrary, if you are but in earnest -- in such earnest that none could mistake your ...« less