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. 1893 Excerpt: ...and my uncle have met" before, Mr. Lynton? at least I think you spoke of him just now as your friend--friend and benefactor." She spoke quite calmly and with the formality of one who addresses another in the ordinary intercourse of "polite society." "That is so," was the equally grave and restrained response. "I ...
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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. 1893 Excerpt: ...and my uncle have met" before, Mr. Lynton? at least I think you spoke of him just now as your friend--friend and benefactor." She spoke quite calmly and with the formality of one who addresses another in the ordinary intercourse of "polite society." "That is so," was the equally grave and restrained response. "I recognized in your uncle the man who had saved my life. I told you once that I had been shipwrecked. It was on Lake Superior. The water is terribly cold, and also being fresh it is hard to swim in. Somehow I managed to reach a rock some little distance from the northern shore. There I lay exhausted, and there I would have perished and been frozen stiff had not a man seen me from the shore. He had no canoe or boat, but he pushed off with a log of timber and came to my rescue. It is but six years ago, so you will understand that he was not a young man. As for me, I was but little more than a boy. The man dried me, rubbed me warm, fed me, sheltered me, clothed me. In three or four days we parted; I never knew his name, never saw him again till we met at the Allan Office this afternoon. So I think, Miss Fairhope, I was justified in using the word benefactor." "Yes, indeed," said the girl, warmly. "The story is quite romantic. And to think that you should have been spared to repay the debt--to the family at least, if not exactly to uncle himself--by your kindness, your great kindness, to us." "Do not speak of that, Miss Fairhope. As I said to your uncle just now, I have done no more than common humanity demanded" "Common humanity!" she interrupted scornfully; " what an extraordinary expression. Uncle must have been obliged to you. But we were not quite helpless or quite ...
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