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Lilliesleaf (2); Being a Concluding Series of Passages in the Life of Mrs. Margaret Maitland, of Sunnyside
Lilliesleaf Being a Concluding Series of Passages in the Life of Mrs Margaret Maitland of Sunnyside - 2 Author:Mrs. Oliphant Volume: 2 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1855 Original Publisher: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers Subjects: Fiction / General Fiction / Classics Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of t... more »he 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 select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. In the morning I got a letter from Mary, the which, as I have been so long of mentioning her, I will put in here. This was what it said: " My dear aunt, " I hope you will be able, some time during this winter, to come to us again. I cannot tell why I am so anxious to see you; I suppose, because I am restless, and not in great spirits -- which is only foolish, you know, for 1 have no occasion to be dull. The bairns are all very well, and Mrs. Elphinstone muchas usual. We have had a great accession of gay company here, in which I keep my place indefatigably -- but it is fatiguing -- and Mary and Susie, poor bairns, miss mamma in the nursery at night. My mother, too, is slightly scandalized at my dissipation, and, though she understands the motive, is not quite reconciled to it. I hope you will be able to come, Aunt Margaret. Tell Grace she can have no such need for your ministrations in her quiet household, as I have -- that is, of course, with so much larger a family, I cannot help having greater cares. I almost smile, in spite of myself, at Grace's trouble with her young sister; had she two wild boys, like me, she would not think so much of Miss Rhoda, who, I trust, is tamed by this time. We have rather a strange guest in our own house -- Mr. Bernard, Cosmo's tutor. He is a gentleman -- very high-spirited, and extremely intolerant of the little prides of other people, though...« less