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. 1910 Excerpt: ...that we are to be married in ten days! I--I can't believe it somehow." She smiled. "It is quite true, silly old boy. And now we must go in to dinner. How do you like being an M. P?" They walked slowly down the path, a splendid looking couple, had any one been there to see them, but the only witness of their interview ...
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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. 1910 Excerpt: ...that we are to be married in ten days! I--I can't believe it somehow." She smiled. "It is quite true, silly old boy. And now we must go in to dinner. How do you like being an M. P?" They walked slowly down the path, a splendid looking couple, had any one been there to see them, but the only witness of their interview had crept away down the steps and was speeding back to the house by way of the tunnel and the heliotrope garden. Susan Lambe's beautiful face was none the less beautiful for the unlovely thoughts behind it, and no one but Daffy particularly noticed her entrance into the drawing room, which took place shortly before that of her sister and Gunning. "Been in the Cascade Garden, haven't you?" Daffy asked, looking up from her music with an expressionless face. Susan glanced at her not quite pleasantly. "No, what makes you think so?" "Sand on your shoes, that's all." Sylvia dutifully kissed Donna Mabel's scented cheek and they went in to dinner. Christopher Lambe had, to every one's amazement, done his duty nobly by his motherless girls; late in the previous June, he had taken them to Switzerland and together they had walked and climbed and gone on the back door and going home without them, no harm was done. Once two young men had threatened to attach themselves to his party, but he speedily disposed of them by a method he confided only to Daffy, who for days afterward used to burst into fits of suppressed chuckles over it. Grundorf was a remote and lonely village and their seclusion was not again molested all summer. In October they returned to the villa and here Sylvia and Daffy had been ever since. Lady Corisande, determined on bringing Sylvia out, met with a flat refusal. Sylvia was going to be married...
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