This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 edition. Excerpt: ...interest in all his works boys take in the pursuits of their elders. CHAPTER XVIII. AUNT JANE GETS INTO STYLISH SOCIETY. " Sae far I sprackl'd np the brae, I dinner'd wi' a lord." Burns. Mary's second winter at school, was, if possible, a greater success than the first. The orphaned Miss Melville was still a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 edition. Excerpt: ...interest in all his works boys take in the pursuits of their elders. CHAPTER XVIII. AUNT JANE GETS INTO STYLISH SOCIETY. " Sae far I sprackl'd np the brae, I dinner'd wi' a lord." Burns. Mary's second winter at school, was, if possible, a greater success than the first. The orphaned Miss Melville was still a pet in " her set," still a boarder at Mrs. Bright's, and still Mary's most affectionate friend. She was taken everywhere by Mrs. Dunlop of Elmton, and Mary was by aunt Jane compelled to accede to their kind request that she should accompany them. Mary's beauty, and the beauty of her singing, attracted much notice, and it was commonly received that Mr. Dunlop, junr., of Elmton, was engaged to the lovely young heiress, who was, however, except for her youth and beauty, rather a nobody. But wealth, youth, and beauty, are they not strong? Mary was admired and petted wherever she went. Though a smile might escape at times, called out by her extreme simplicity, or some homely little phrase, yet she never was ungraceful, or anything but ladylike. " Something in her own manner," aunt Jane declared, "must be in fault, that she hadn't most of the eligible young men in town as declared suitors." And aunt Jane was right. Her utter indifference and want of interest kept back many an aspirant to her good will. Aunt Jane had not hitherto received much notice from Mary's distinguished friends. In Paris, they had been very shy of her. But one morning in the beginning of this May, a coachman's livery turned up to her humble door, in that humble street, and left a note. Miss Burns was requested to spend next Thursday at Elmton, " The family was to be quite alone." But what a loneliness was that! Aunt Jane would as soon have been ushered into the presence of...
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