Cross Currents A Novel Author:Mary Angela Dickens General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1892 Original Publisher: D. Appleton Subjects: English fiction 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-... more »Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IIL John Tykrell and his sister had always more invitations for the summer months than it was possible for them to accept, even though they invariably divided their forces, and never visited together. Miss Tyrrell was apt to be quite plaintive on the hardship of having to offer herself as a substitute for her brother, but her own position in the fashionable world was so high and so assured that, as a matter of fact, she was, and knew herself to be, little less of an acquisition than John Tyrrell himself. The month of July was spent by the latter in yachting with some friends, and he had arranged to stay on with the same party until the second week of August. The sudden collapse of this arrangement, owing to the serious illness of the host, left him with a week on his hands, and he wrote to some old friends at whose place in Yorkshire he was due on the eleventh of August, offering himself to them nearly ten days earlier than he had been expected. The delighted reply he received was full of hopes that he would not find the house unbearably dull until the shooting began ; and as his host, who had driven him from the little Yorkshire station at which he arrived one lovely August afternoon, led the way across the large, silent hall into the apparently equally silent drawing-room, it crossed Tyrrell's mind that he might have been wiser if he had gone abroad for the next ten days. He had heard during the five-mile drive across the moors that there was only one other visitor in the house at present; but his host had not been communicative on ...« less