Love of Sisters Author:Katharine Tynan General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1902 Original Publisher: Smith, Elder Subjects: Irish fiction Fiction / General Fiction / Classics Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. W... more »hen 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 IX. LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM. The garden was flooded with moonlight, and grey with dew. Beyond the low, sweet-briar hedge, which sent out a piercing fragrance, there was a quiet sound of cattle chewing the cud. Little Fidele stole by Phil's skirt as it swished along the path of fine sea-sand. Moths flew about in the silver beams, and now and again a bat whirred almost in their faces. " We are forgotten in there." Ross Lismore nodded towards the lighted windows. " Yes; we are quite forgotten," assented Phil; " they are happy over their game. What a provision cards are for old age! " Poor Mr. Bryden might have winced to hear the speech; but Phil was not thinking of him. " It will be long before you have to make that provision," said Lismore, with a thrill in his voice which sent an answering thrill through his companion. " Ah, I don't know," she replied, looking up at him shyly. " Twenty-two is -- not so very young." " What is it to twenty-seven ?" he asked. " Why, five years to the good," she answered; and then they both laughed, the easily provoked laughter of the young and happy. They were close to the sweet-briar hedge now, looking over the dim fields. A bird piped remotely in sleep. A little wind tinkled among the heads of barley. From a coppice of trees across the field an owl hooted. "Who is Mr. Bryden?" asked Boss Lismore, suddenly. Phil looked up as though the sudden question had startled her. "Don't you know?" she said. "Horatio Bryden, the Kin...« less