That Beautiful Wretch A Brighton Story Author:William Black General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1881 Original Publisher: Harper Subjects: Fiction / General Fiction / Anthologies Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustratio... more »ns 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: Nan was rather tired after her long walk, and was not inclined to show much interest in that now lessening vessel which was slowly sinking into the dusk of the west. " Do you know what her name is ?" said Mary Beres- ford, still regarding her younger sister. "No, "said Nan. "I heard people say she was a man-of-war." " That is the Fly-by-Night." " Oh, indeed,'' said Nan, with no greater interest than before. "And Lieutenant King has just called here," the elder sister said, pointedly. " Oh, indeed,'' said Nan. " I wish I had been in. I should like to have seen him in uniform." That was all she said -- and all she thought ; for now there were far more serious things than ball-rooms and young lieutenants occiipying Nan's attention. She and her sisters were going abroad -- she for the first time ; and she was busy with foreign languages, and lives of the great painters, and catalogues, and guide-books, and dressing-cases. The world she hoped to plunge into on the following week was in her imagination composed of nothing but cathedrals and picture-galleries ; and she could have wished that the picture-galleries might contain nothing but the labors of Botticelli and Andrea del Sarto. The clear ethereal beauty and tenderness of the one, the solemn thoughtfulness of the other : these were things that filled her mind with a mysterious gladness, as if something had been added to her own life. Rubens she cordially hated. Of Ti...« less