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. 1872 Excerpt: ...countries! And all this time Henry Lankester was thinking of Clara morning, noon, and night, and longing to win her for his own. A most worthless, unprincipled man he was, though he contrived to make himself very useful and valuable to General Sidney, whose personal servant he had been for years in India. He received ...
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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. 1872 Excerpt: ...countries! And all this time Henry Lankester was thinking of Clara morning, noon, and night, and longing to win her for his own. A most worthless, unprincipled man he was, though he contrived to make himself very useful and valuable to General Sidney, whose personal servant he had been for years in India. He received high wages, and had a good deal of time to himself. So that he K was always ready to attend his master at certain hours, that gentleman was satisfied; of his private history he knew nothing, otherwise he would have found that it did not hear looking into. When the General left India, he had no idea that Lankester had left a wife there--a young Englishwoman whom he could win in no other way, and whom he placed in service in Calcutta, not caring to be troubled with her in England. He had grown tired of her very soon, though her beauty had attracted him much when she first arrived with her mistress in India. This girl, by name Amy Danvers, was an orphan, and had scarcely a friend or relation in the world. Almost the only one she ever knew was a poor woman who was a distant relation of her father's, and who took her to live with her when he died. By her she was carefully and virtuously brought up, and was at fourteen taken into a clergyman's family as under-nursemaid. Here she lived till she was nineteen, when her cleverness at her needle and her pleasing looks attracted the notice of a lady named Marchmore, who was going to India, and who wanted a nursemaid for her little baby. Being a great friend of the family in which Amy lived, they willingly gave her up to Mrs. Marchmore, as she would have much higher wages, and the girl had a great fancy to go abroad. So Amy sailed for India. The climate, however, never agreed with her mistress, who died of ...
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