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Goldhorne Hall, an English Tale, by Epine D'or (c.b.).
Goldhorne Hall an English Tale by Epine D'or - c.b. Author:C. B General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1871 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 from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. Three or four days prior to the return of Mrs. St. Ives, her daughters received a loving letter from their mother. The black seal, bearing the crest of the St. Ives family, indicated too plainly to the sisters the subject; and when they had perused the sad epistle they hastened to Mrs. Goldthorne's apartment, to communicate to her the melancholy intelligence. The painful tidings evidently afflicted, her, as she took, from a small reticule which hung on the back of her chair, her handkerchief, to wipe the tears from her face ; and while so occupied she said, -- "Ah! poor dear, she's gone at last. Little did I imagine when she attained her one-and-twentieth year (which her father celebrated so joyously, for she was the one most fondly loved), that she would end her days in a foreign land. Shall I tell you, love, some few incidents relating to theGoldthorne family previous to her marriage?" continued she, addressing Ada, who had ever been her favourite. Mrs. Goldthorne was evidently experiencing a twinge or or two, in consequence of having been unjust in many of her remarks. " I am sure, aunt," replied Ada, " we should both take it very kind were you to do so, yet not if they should recall painful memories." Ada was excessively sensitive, -- more so than Claire; and the emotion Mrs. Goldthorne betrayed on the death of their aunt affected her. ' No, no, dear girls." Yet she continued to shed tears in memory of her who had once been Agnes Goldthorne. The old lady -- old, for she was between sixty and seventy -- commenced thus: -- " Your aunt Agnes was about eighteen when she lost her ...« less