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Masollam (1); A Problem of the Period: a Novel
Masollam A Problem of the Period a Novel - 1 Author:Laurence Oliphant Volume: 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1886 Original Publisher: Bernhard Tauchnitz Subjects: Fiction / Classics History / General 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 ill... more »ustrations 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: CHAPTER V. MISS FLORENCE HARTWRIGHl'S SENTIMENTAL CON- FIDENCES. When it came to be known to the younger members of the Hartwright family that, for reasons which were not made clear to them, the proposed trip to the Continent had been indefinitely postponed; that Mr. Masollam and his daughter had been invited to take up their residence at the family mansion; and that their cousin Sebastian was expected to arrive that evening, -- a more than ordinary commotion was produced; while the strain to which Mrs. Hartwright's temper was subjected by this sudden revolution of her plans, was not calculated to remove the friction which resulted therefrom. Partially dismantled rooms had to be hurriedly refurnished; extra supplies sent for from town; servants to be persuaded to resume then- functions, who had made arrangements for leaving; trunks to be unpacked; and, worst of all, explanations to be invented, which should satisfy the gossip to which so unusual an occurrence was sure to give rise. "Oh, bother!" said Laura to Florence, as both those young ladies were standing knee-deep in then- respective wardrobes, in the room which they occupied together. "I told Susan to put my pink-satin dress in this trunk -- and now I've tumbled everything out on the floor, and it's not there; and Susan has had leavefor the afternoon to look for another place, which I hope she has not found -- and I've got nothing to wear this evening!...« less