ISBN: 9781150362620

General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1905Original Publisher: Methuen Subjects: Fiction / AnthologiesFiction / ClassicsFiction / LiteraryLiterary Criticism / Euro… More...

General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1905Original Publisher: Methuen Subjects: Fiction / AnthologiesFiction / ClassicsFiction / LiteraryLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh 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 select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: ' I've heard gran'mother say,' she said, standing by their bound hands, ' as in the ou'd ancient time the volk used to do this and was married thereby fast as heaven ami airth cu'd make 'em. And I've made you double fast, I have, wi' my pixy chain. You're oue afore heaven above and airth beneath, and a' the pixies as well, so I've mended what was amiss, and you'll get back again to Curgenven, and get the young squire too.' Then suddenly, moved by a new impulse, she withdrew the chain and ran away - ran from the cottage, fled among the rocks, threw herself down in a hidden nook, and tossed from side to side in a storm of tears. CHAPTER XXII. A REBELLION. Mr. Percival Cubgenven sat in the study. A good many houses have rooms so designated, though never used for that concentration of thought which is implied by the name. Captain Lambert had preferred his smoking-room in the bungalow as a quiet retreat to which he could retire, and where he could lounge and enjoy his cigar, and let his thoughts drift to and fro as sea-weed in chopping waves in a vortex of currents. All business he had thrown off himself upon the shoulders of agent and wife. Now Mr. Percival had discovered that much came upon him, the consideration of which he was not in a position to devolve on others. And chief of this was that day-and-night-mare of all housekeepers, the servants. Percival had thought that he was freed from solicitude on this Books History~~General Mrs-Curgenven-Of-Curgenven~~S-Baring-Gould General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781150362620

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