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. 1849 Excerpt: ...to fasten on, that she could not avoid showing how happy it made her to find that there was so much of sympathy between him and Mary. Upon her return home, she could not help letting fall certain expressions and remarks which referred to Mrs. Aston's opinion of him, and at the same time showing what she surmised were ...
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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. 1849 Excerpt: ...to fasten on, that she could not avoid showing how happy it made her to find that there was so much of sympathy between him and Mary. Upon her return home, she could not help letting fall certain expressions and remarks which referred to Mrs. Aston's opinion of him, and at the same time showing what she surmised were Mary's feelings. This she did cautiously and in a playful way; for she well understood that Edward was not a man to be talked to, or to talk of his affections; and she knew how to respect him for i . " Am I not sure that she loves me?" said he, one day, as he shut his study door. " And why should I delay? Is it not trifling with myself, and what is more, with a woman of delicate and ardent feelings? "--He had asked himself these very questions before. And those who go to proffer terms of marriage with certificates of property and letters of recommendation in their pockets, must think him a very odd sort of fellow to make such a pother about that which so many before him have done off-hand. Some are blessed with an undisturbed worldly wisdom; while others are carried to and fro, or hurried or delayed, by impulses and sensations made up of exquisite pleasures and acute pains, over which they have little control. Heaven help these last! The first can take care of themselves, at least for this world. There are men of a certain refined sense, brave men too, and with not a whit of awkward bashfulness in them either, who, even where they knew the affection to be mutual, could no more tell a woman that they loved her, just when they chose to fix the time for doing so, than Cowper could have read in the House of Lords. Urgent business of his father's prevented Edward for some time from seeing Mary. When he did, it was on a mild ...
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Good. Book. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Full smooth pigskin leather, gilt borders, gilt decorated back strip, marbled endpapers. xi + 450 pp. Front joint/hinge shows evidence of repair. Corners a bit exposed. Some surface scuffing to leather. Firm binding, clean interior, with former owner bookplate on front pastedown, signature of former owner George B. Perry on title pg., else clean.
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Very Good. 0839803508. Complete in two volumes. A reprint of the 1850 edition. Light shelf wear and aging, else both volumes are very good in light blue cloth. No dust jackets.
