Constance Trescot A Novel Author:Silas Weir Mitchell General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1905 Original Publisher: s.n. 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 select fro... more »m more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Ill MONTH had gone by. A savage northeast wind was rocking the pines and hurling a thunderous surf on the rock- guarded coast. It was the third of March, the night before the day set for the marriage. Their uncle having as usual gone to bed early, the two sisters sat alone by a bright wood fire in the sitting-room they shared. Susan rose and went to the window. '' What a wild night!" she said, as the rain, wind driven, crashed against the panes, and the casement rattled. "The gardener said this afternoon a ship had gone ashore on Carl ton's Beef. I hope no lives were lost." "Yes, Uncle Rufus told me of it, and was gracious enough to observe that going to sea was like getting married -- a very uncertain business." Susan, as she returned to the fire, remarked: "He has an unequaled capacity for saying unpleasant things, but I really believe that he does not mean to be malicious. The trouble is, he values the product of his own mind too highly to be willing to suppress any of it. I might have had the fancy that the ocean and marriage are uncertain. I should not have thought it fit or worth while to say so." " I do not see, Susan, how George has stood it forthis last month. What with Uncle Rufus's endless indirectness and perpetual indecision, I cannot wonder that George is puzzled to understand what he wants. I shall be more than glad to have done with it, and get half a continent between us and uncle.'' "You will never be done with it while he lives," returned Susan; "and you may be pretty sure that he will some day appear at St. Ann and still further bother George." "Well,...« less