Margot's Progress Author:Douglas Goldring General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1920 Original Publisher: T. Seltzer 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 sele... more »ct from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER V One of the first things which Margot did on her arrival in London was to send a note to Rachel Elkington asking her to come to tea. She wrote the letter in her room early one morning, after she had drunk her first cup of tea and the black silk curtains had been drawn to let in a ray of sunlight as joyous as her own youth. She had jumped out of bed and run in her nightgown to throw the window wide open, to look at the fresh greenery of the trees in the terrace, at the blue sky overhead -- at London. She had to be up and doing, though she was really a little ashamed to find that her childhood habits of early rising were so ingrained. To avoid making a premature descent to the bath-room she sat writing letters, the first to Rachel Elkington, the second to her "friends in England," the Hendersons. Although Adam Henderson really existed, she had not seen him for such a long time that he was now largely an unknown quantity. Two years ago, not long after the wonder-week with Jacky Bruce which marked the beginning of her sentimental experience, she had been wooed by this young clergyman, who had come out to see if he had a vocation for pastoral work in the far Northwest. He had stopped in Montreal on his return journey to England (not finding the far Northwest much to his liking) and had fallen in with Margot, who encouraged him because he had the same respect for-her "innocence" which had been shown by Jacky. Adam Henderson, however, was a Scotsman of a type not unlike her own father. He took the grocery store into consideration when engaged in hiswooing, weighed the ...« less