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Sabina Zembra (2); A Novel in Three Volumes
Sabina Zembra A Novel in Three Volumes - 2 Author:William Black Volume: 2 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1887 Original Publisher: Macmillan 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 yo... more »u can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER XXI SOME NEW ACQUAINTANCES Now there had been a clear understanding, if no formal compact, between these two, that their life after marriage was to be in a manner a combination of their separate lives before it. He was to be at her right hand in all her various duties; she was to reward herself occasionally by a little participation in his amusements. He had talked her over into considering this a very sensible and practicable scheme; and on the one or two occasions when he was allowed to accompany her on her errands of mercy and help, his good- humour, his shrewd acquaintance with the world, s ways, and his vivacious society, all came in very well. Unfortunately for this ideal copartnership, however, when they returned to London it so happened that the Cesarewitch and Cambridgeshire handicaps had just been published, and he was much interested in the discussion of these imposts, and he was away a good deal among acquaintances whom he did not care to introduce to his wife, because their conversation was not in the least likely to interest her. Then came the Doncaster September Meeting. But when he had spokenof Sabina, s giving herself a little holiday relaxation now and again, he had never thought of proposing to her a rough- and-tumble journey down to Yorkshire and back. He had thought of a sunny afternoon at Lord, s, looking on at a cricket match; or a trip down the river in the steamer of the Royal Thames Yacht Club; or the Oaks, perhaps, or Ascot, or Goodwood -- something pretty and lively and socially amusing; not this business-like meeting in the ...« less