Excerpt from The Builders No, thought he, I do not remember Miss Hilliard. It is doubtless very stupid and all that, but if I ever heard the name before it has completely passed from my remembrance. She says three o'clock, and glancing at the French timepiece on his mantel he saw it was about to strike the hour. Scarcely had the sound of the mellow, cathedral like alarm died away, when the doorbell clanged out like a harsh echo of the clock's last stroke. The servant brought in a card, bearing the name Miss Ruth Hilliard, ...
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Excerpt from The Builders No, thought he, I do not remember Miss Hilliard. It is doubtless very stupid and all that, but if I ever heard the name before it has completely passed from my remembrance. She says three o'clock, and glancing at the French timepiece on his mantel he saw it was about to strike the hour. Scarcely had the sound of the mellow, cathedral like alarm died away, when the doorbell clanged out like a harsh echo of the clock's last stroke. The servant brought in a card, bearing the name Miss Ruth Hilliard, and received instructions to admit the visitor at once. The rustle of skirts was heard in the hallway. The half-hesitation of the visitor as she stood in the open door suggested momentary confusion, but te assurance Seemed to assert itself as she complied with the cordial invitation to enter and be seated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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