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The Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Members of the English Church
The Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Members of the English Church Author:Charlotte Mary Yonge General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1879 Original Publisher: John and Charles Mozley 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... more » you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: ' Hush, it is not your affair, Miss Trelawney, you are so generous, but indeed, your father and I are better apart for a little. When he retracts what he has said, he will not find me unforgiving.' Now, good-bye.' The brief sternness vanished from his manner, and he held out his hand to her with his old kind smile, his eyes were full of benignant pity as he looked at her pale young face; it was so like her generosity to defend her friends, he thought. Richard followed him down the long carriage road, and they stood for a while outside the lodge gates. If Dr. Heriot held the clue to this strange quarrel, he kept his own counsel. ' He is a narrow-minded man with warped views and strong passions, he may cool down, and find out his mistake one day,' was all he said to Richard. ' I only pity his daughter for being his daughter.' He might well pity her. Richard little thought as he hurried after his friend, what an angry hurricane the imprudent girl had brought on herself ; with all her courage, the squire made her quail and tremble under his angry sneers. ' Papa ! papa ! ' was all she could say, when the last bitter arrow was launched at her. ' Papa, say you do not mean it -- that he cannot think that.' ' What else can a man think when a girl is fool enough to stand up for him ? For once -- yes, for once -- I was ashamed of my daughter !' ' Ashamed of me ?' -- drawing herself up, but beginning to tremble from head to foot -- that she, Ethel Trelawney, should be subjected to this insult! ' Yes, ashamed of you ! that my daughter should be absolutely courting ...« less