Madcap Violet - 2 Author:William Black Volume: 2 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1876 Original Publisher: Macmillan and co. Subjects: Fiction / General Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Fiction / Coming of Age History / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be ty... more »pos 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 IV. SETTING OUT. Mr. George Miller arrived in due course ; and very handsome the young fellow looked as he stepped ashore from the steamer to shake hands with his friends on the quay. Violet had been persuaded to accompany the others ; and she could not help greeting him with a pleasant smile -- indeed, there was something in this sudden meeting that recalled other days. With great prudence, too, he forbore to express any special pleasure in seeing her again. She was only one of the little group of friends. He addressed himself almost exclusively to Mrs. Warrener, as they proceeded to find their way up to Castle Bandbox. Nor, on this first evening, were any of Violet's 'predictions fulfilled. All the happy old timehad not completely gone. The)7 were quite -as joyous and homely as ever; and a certain discursive orator had as large a share of that talk which could only by courtesy be called conversation ; that is, nobody else had a share. Mr. Miller laughed and enjoyed himself with the rest; he did not embarrass Violet with the least specialty of attention ; his whole interest was apparently absorbed in his chances of getting a shot or two before starting in the yacht, and in the prospects held out by the Sea-Pyot of a comfortable voyage. All was so far well. It was only by degrees, and that almost imperceptibly, that his influence in this small household began to tell. He was a young man of system, of minute observation, of careful, b...« less