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Sinopsis
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. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ...please, Lady Jane, you will write a letter to Mrs. Rawdon Crawley, requesting her presence upon this melancholy occasion." " Jane, I forbid you to put pen to paper!" cried the Countess. " I believe I am the head of this family," Sir Pitt repeated; " and however much I may regret an)'circumstance which may lead to your Ladyship quitting this house, must, if you please, continue to govern it as I see fit." Lady Southdown rose up as magnificent as Mrs. Siddons in Lady Macbeth, and ordered that horses might be put to her carriage. If her son and daughter turned her out of their house, she would hide her sorrows somewhere in loneliness, and pray for their conversion to better thoughts. "We don't turn you out of our house, Mamma," said the timid Lady Jane imploringly. " You invite such company to it as no Christian lady should meet, and I will have my horses to-morrow morning." "Have the goodness to write, Jane, under my dictation," said Sir Pitt, rising, and throwing himself into an attitude of command, like the Portrait of a Gentleman in the Exhibition, "and begin, 'Queen's Crawley, September 14, 1822.--My dear brother--'" Hearing these decisive and terrible words. Lady Macbeth, who had been waiting for a sign of weakness or vacillation on the part of her son-in-law, rose, and with a scared look, left the library. Lad' Jane looked up to her husband as if she would fain follow and soothe her mamma: but Pitt forbade his wife to move. " She won't go away," he said. " She has let her house at Brighton, and has spent her last half-year's dividends. A Countess living at an inn is a ruined woman. I have been waiting long for an opportunity to take this--this decisive step, my love; for, as you must perceive, it is impossible that there should be two chiefs...
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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. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ...please, Lady Jane, you will write a letter to Mrs. Rawdon Crawley, requesting her presence upon this melancholy occasion." " Jane, I forbid you to put pen to paper!" cried the Countess. " I believe I am the head of this family," Sir Pitt repeated; " and however much I may regret an)'circumstance which may lead to your Ladyship quitting this house, must, if you please, continue to govern it as I see fit." Lady Southdown rose up as magnificent as Mrs. Siddons in Lady Macbeth, and ordered that horses might be put to her carriage. If her son and daughter turned her out of their house, she would hide her sorrows somewhere in loneliness, and pray for their conversion to better thoughts. "We don't turn you out of our house, Mamma," said the timid Lady Jane imploringly. " You invite such company to it as no Christian lady should meet, and I will have my horses to-morrow morning." "Have the goodness to write, Jane, under my dictation," said Sir Pitt, rising, and throwing himself into an attitude of command, like the Portrait of a Gentleman in the Exhibition, "and begin, 'Queen's Crawley, September 14, 1822.--My dear brother--'" Hearing these decisive and terrible words. Lady Macbeth, who had been waiting for a sign of weakness or vacillation on the part of her son-in-law, rose, and with a scared look, left the library. Lad' Jane looked up to her husband as if she would fain follow and soothe her mamma: but Pitt forbade his wife to move. " She won't go away," he said. " She has let her house at Brighton, and has spent her last half-year's dividends. A Countess living at an inn is a ruined woman. I have been waiting long for an opportunity to take this--this decisive step, my love; for, as you must perceive, it is impossible that there should be two chiefs...
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