Brave Heart and True A Novel Author:Florence Marryat General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1890 Original Publisher: United States Book Company Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illus... more »trations 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: She throws down her brush, and comb, and ribbons, and, seating herself, proceeds to break the seal and read the epistle. The first words make her stare; at the next, she grows red and white by turns, and, when she reaches the conclusion, she lets the paper drop upon the floor, and bursts into a flood of tears. There it lies for some minutes, whilst May sobs and chokes, and dries her streaming eyes, and sobs again. But, as she becomes exhausted, she becomes incredulous. It is a falsehood. Some one is jealous of her exceeding happiness. It cannot be true. She picks up the crumpled letter, and smooths it out, and reads it over again. Let us read it with her. " 5 Mabel Grove, Walham Green." "Miss Moriaty, " Madam, -- As a cruel rumor is going about town that you are about to marry your cousin, Mr. Denis O'More, I write to warn you that he is a married man. Two years ago he married me at the registrar's office in Hammersmith. My name was Emily Sheppard, and he met me when I was an assistant at Madame Vertue's, in Regent Street. He has promised me again and again that he will disclose the secret of our marriage to his mother, and I have been very patient with him. But when I hear he is going to marry an heiress, and he does not write to me, or come to see me for months together, I think it is time I should speak for myself. I got this address from the caretaker at his mother's house, and I trust the letter will reach y...« less