ISBN: 9781153682886

Excerpt: ...was on the ground that day, and I managed to get into conversation with him, and strolled off in the grounds. There I showed him the photograph, and asked if he could identify… More...

Excerpt: ...was on the ground that day, and I managed to get into conversation with him, and strolled off in the grounds. There I showed him the photograph, and asked if he could identify the man climbing over the wagon: but he said he couldn''t recognise him. Somebody or other from Torquay, perhaps; not a regular resident. The figures were so small, and so difficult to make sure about. If I''d leave him the photograph, perhaps-but at that I drew back, for I didn''t want anybody, least of all at Torquay, to know what quest I was engaged upon. We drove back, a merry party enough, in spite of my failure. Minnie was always so jolly, and her mirth was contagious. She talked all the way still of Dr. Ivor, half-teasing me. It was all very well my pretending not to remember, she said; but why did I want to see the cricket-field if it wasn''t for that? Poor Courtenay! if only he knew, how delighted he''d be to know he wasn''t forgotten! For he really took it to heart, my illness-she always called it my illness, and so I suppose it was. From the day I lost my memory, nothing seemed to go right with him; and he was never content till he went and buried himself somewhere in the wilds of Canada. That evening again, I sat with Minnie in my room. I was depressed and distressed. I didn''t want to cry before Minnie, but I could have cried with good heart for sheer vexation. Of course I couldn''t bear to go showing the photograph to all the world, and letting everybody see I''d made myself a sort of amateur detective. They would mistake my motives so. And yet I didn''t know how I was ever to find out my man any other way. It was that or nothing. I made up my mind I would ask Cousin Willie. I took out the photograph, as if unintentionally, when I went to my box, and laid it down with my curling-tongs on the table close by Minnie. Minnie took it up abstractedly and looked at it with an indefinite gaze. Why, this is the cricket-field! she cried, as soon as she collected her senses.... Grant Allen, Books, Fiction and Literature, Recalled To Life Books>Fiction and Literature The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Fiction / General; Fiction / Classics; Fiction / Literary; Fiction / Mystery<

ISBN: 9781153682886

Work from the respected writer, expounder of Darwinism and pioneer in Canadian science fiction. Books Books ~~ Fiction~~ General Recalled-to-Life~~Grant-Allen General Books LLC The book h… More...

Work from the respected writer, expounder of Darwinism and pioneer in Canadian science fiction. Books Books ~~ Fiction~~ General Recalled-to-Life~~Grant-Allen General Books LLC The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Fiction / General; Fiction / Classics; Fiction / Literary; Fiction / Mystery<

ISBN: 9781153682886

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