Search -
Lord Erlistoun; Alwyn's First Wife; the Water Cure; the Last House in C-Street
Lord Erlistoun Alwyn's First Wife the Water Cure the Last House in CStreet Author:Dinah Maria Mulock Craik General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1864 Original Publisher: B. Tauchnitz Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Fiction / Romance / General Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Women Authors Notes: This is a black... more » 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: CHAPTER VII...-. . . "!n a few months" had been Lord JMJgipun's date of return -- indefinite as most of his /daftes were. During November, December, January, -February, March, I brought his letters to Pleasant row, at the usual uncertain intervals, and with the usual variable post-marks -- then they paused. '.-'V. It was again spring. I think there is a time of life; before we learn to recognise and acquiesce in the mysterious law of mutation, in ourselves as in the external world, when the return of spring is intensely painful. Walking with her by the railings of budding suburban gardens, catching at street-corners bits of soft white and blue spring skies -- I could trace in Jean's profile an expression that went to my heart. Not a word she said; but often a knock at the door would make her start and tremble; and I noticed that she never went out or came in without leaving the careful message, "I shall be back at such and such an hour," or the question, studiedly careless -- "Has anybody been?" No! There never was anybody; and she used to walk upstairs, slowly, wearily, then after a few minutes come out of her own room with her bonnet off and her hair smooth -- pale and quiet; -- that day and its chances were over. I broke through] my customary rule ,1 and used to come up to Pleasant ro. w almost every evening. One day I got a holiday, and invited myself t...« less