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. 1880 Excerpt: ...who have had the patience to read of them so far, may have the curiosity to pursue their fortunes to the end. Two years and a half will have passed over each of their heads before we meet them again. CHAPTER VI. 'SAY AN OLD FRIEND CALLED TO SEE HER. When Lady William Nettleship had had time to settle down, after the ...
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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. 1880 Excerpt: ...who have had the patience to read of them so far, may have the curiosity to pursue their fortunes to the end. Two years and a half will have passed over each of their heads before we meet them again. CHAPTER VI. 'SAY AN OLD FRIEND CALLED TO SEE HER. When Lady William Nettleship had had time to settle down, after the excitement consequent upon her daughter's wedding, and to look her future steadily in the face, she found that she had gained a great deal more than she had lost by the transformation of Miss Regina Nettleship into Mrs. Vivian Chasemore. Five hundred a year is a sorry income on which to keep up an appearance of respectability when one is compelled to meet from it all the outlay attendant on the dressing and taking about of a young and fashionable lady on her promotion. But when it has to be applied only to the wants of an old woman who prefers card-parties and dinners at her neighbour's expense rather than at her own, it will go a considerable distance. And Lady William felt the better for Regina's departure not only in the increased freedom of her purse-strings; a load seemed lifted from her existence when her daughter's espionage was removed. She was a very worldly and pleasure-seeking old lady, who loved gambling and late hours, and would stoop to any depth to gain a dinner or a loan. And Regina had restrained her in all this. Regina, who, with her faults of coldness and pride and love of money, was a true gentlewoman in feeling, had blushed at her mother's proclivities for gaming and painting and placing herself under obligations to people she despised, and had tended by her scornful behaviour to keep many from their doors who would otherwise gladly have entered them. With her marriage the barrier was removed, and it was not long before Lady...
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Add this copy of The Root of All Evil, Volume 2... to cart. $59.18, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2012 by Nabu Press.
