A Summer's Romance Author:Mary Healy General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1872 Original Publisher: Roberts Brothers Subjects: Fiction / Romance / General Fiction / Romance / Adult Fiction / Romance / Contemporary Fiction / Romance / Historical Fiction / Romance / Suspense History / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of... more » 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 select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV. LEFT TO HERSELF. T TOW that long day passed Louie could after- wards scarcely remember. She believed that she must have gone to the doctor's room, called him, and explained the circumstances of Lady Thurlow's death; she remembered vaguely that she felt frozen up, and that she spoke quietly and as in a dream. Through the indistinctness of her sensations she, however, remembered with a sort of pain the thoroughly business-like way in which the event was regarded. The doctor, the lawyer, and the two servants stood around the bed composedly talking in low tones about the deceased, and arranging as to the best means of conveying her, according to directions given by herself in stoical anticipation of her death, to England. Louie grew sick and faint, for the impression which the death-scene had made on her was terribly vivid, and the contrast between it and this heartless talk was exquisitely painful. She managed to reach her own room unnoticed, and, throwing herself on the bed, sank into a state of half-unconsciousness which lasted many hours. Fantastic visions or dreams tormented her, and in after-days mingled weirdly with her remembrance of actual events. Whether she lay there that whole day entirely forgotten, or whether, taking this torpor for sleep, those about her had feared to break it, she never knew, nor indeed did she care. The next morning, when Louie was dressed and h...« less