Kooroona Author:Iota General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1871 Original Publisher: A.R. Mowbray 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 se... more »lect from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV. OW, young people," said Mr. Graham, towards the close of the morning meal; "what is to be done to-day, and where shall we go ? I mean to give myself a holiday and you shall do what you please with me." " Hurrah I " exclaimed Harry, who was as much at home with the Grahams, as if he had known them all his life instead of for a few days. " Mamma, will you come ?" " I think not. Mrs. Graham has asked me to accompany her to the Port to see how Mrs. Brown is." "We will go there to-morrow," said Mrs. Graham, " if you prefer joining Mr. Graham's party." "I should prefer doing so, certainly," replied Mrs. Vernon, "but I think it will be better to deny myself the pleasure. I should not like to leave this part of the country without enquiring personally after that poor woman." "You speak as if you were going away immediately, my dear Mrs. Vernon," said Mr. Graham, " but I hope it will be a long time before you begin to think of leaving us. I am sure Alfred won't approve of any sudden move that will deprive him of his new friends, to say nothing of Kate and myself." "I do not think I had any definite idea of going or staying, when I spoke," said Mrs. Vernon, with a faint smile. " The words were rather the result of a feeling which sprung up and has been gaining strength during the last few years, the feeling that if I put off for my own pleasure anything which -it is right to do, and that I have an opportunity of doing, I may not have the opportunity given to me again." "Mrs. Vernon and I shall go to the Port, so, Frank, you and the young people make your own a...« less