ISBN: 9780217219471

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1869. Not illustrat… More...

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1869. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... he had declared that in no other way could the truth be obtained. He, Trevelyan, simply wanted to know the facts as they were occurring. It was a fact that Colonel Osborne was down in the neighbourhood of Nuncombe Putney. That, at least, had been ascertained. It might very possibly be the case that he would be refused admittance to the Clock House,-- that all the ladies there would combine to keep him out. But,--so Trevelyan urged,--the truth on this point was desired. It was essentially necessary to his happiness that he should know what was being done. Your mother and sister, said he, cannot be afraid of your coming suddenly among them. Stanbury, so urged, had found it necessary to yield, but yet he had felt that he himself was almost acting like a detective policeman, in purposely falling down upon them without a word of announcement. Had chance circumstances made it necessary that he should go in such a manner he would have thought nothing of it. It would simply have been a pleasant joke to him. As he went down by the train on the following day, he almost felt ashamed of the part which he had been called upon to perform. CHAPTER XX. Shewing Uow Colonel Osborne went to Cockchaffington. Together with Miss Stanbury''s first letter to her sister-in-law a letter had also been delivered to Mrs. Trevelyan. Nora Rowley, as her sister had left the room with this in her hand, had expressed her opinion that it had come from Trevelyan; but it had in truth been written by Colonel Osborne. And when that second letter from Miss Stanbury had been received at the Clock House,--that in which she in plain terms begged pardon for the accusation conveyed in her first letter,--Colonel Osborne had started on his deceitful little journey to Cockchaffington, and Mr. Bozzle, the e... Anthony Trollope, Books, Fiction and Literature, Fiction, Literary, He Knew He Was Right (volume 1) Books>Fiction and Literature>Fiction>Literary, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9780217219471

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1869. Not illustrat… More...

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1869. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... he had declared that in no other way could the truth be obtained. He, Trevelyan, simply wanted to know the facts as they were occurring. It was a fact that Colonel Osborne was down in the neighbourhood of Nuncombe Putney. That, at least, had been ascertained. It might very possibly be the case that he would be refused admittance to the Clock House,-- that all the ladies there would combine to keep him out. But,--so Trevelyan urged,--the truth on this point was desired. It was essentially necessary to his happiness that he should know what was being done. Your mother and sister, said he, cannot be afraid of your coming suddenly among them. Stanbury, so urged, had found it necessary to yield, but yet he had felt that he himself was almost acting like a detective policeman, in purposely falling down upon them without a word of announcement. Had chance circumstances made it necessary that he should go in such a manner he would have thought nothing of it. It would simply have been a pleasant joke to him. As he went down by the train on the following day, he almost felt ashamed of the part which he had been called upon to perform. CHAPTER XX. Shewing Uow Colonel Osborne went to Cockchaffington. Together with Miss Stanbury''s first letter to her sister-in-law a letter had also been delivered to Mrs. Trevelyan. Nora Rowley, as her sister had left the room with this in her hand, had expressed her opinion that it had come from Trevelyan; but it had in truth been written by Colonel Osborne. And when that second letter from Miss Stanbury had been received at the Clock House,--that in which she in plain terms begged pardon for the accusation conveyed in her first letter,--Colonel Osborne had started on his deceitful little journey to Cockchaffington, and Mr. Bozzle, the e... Anthony Trollope, Books, Fiction and Literature, He Knew He Was Right (volume 1) Books>Fiction and Literature <

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