Green Pastures and Piccadilly: A Novel (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from Green Pastures and Piccadilly: A Novel

Donnerwetter! It is as warm to-day - it is as warm as July. Why do you all sit here? Come! Shall we make it a holiday? Shall we drive to Guildford? - Weybridge - Chertsey -esher?

The two women were sneaking Off by themselves, perhaps be cause they wished to have a further talk about poor Lady Sylvia and her awful fate; perhaps because they were anxious, like all women, to leave holiday arrangements in other hands, in order to have the right Of subsequently grumbling over them.

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Excerpt from Green Pastures and Piccadilly: A Novel

You may be sure there was a stir among our women-folk when they heard that a young man had come courting the earls daughter. We have among us - or over us, rather - a miniature majordomo of a woman, a mere wisp of a thing, who has nevertheless an awful majesty of demeanor, and the large and innocent eyes of a child, and a wit as nimble and elusive as a minnow; and no sooner is this matter mentioned than she says,

"Oh, the poor child! And she has no mother."

"That," it is observed by a person who has learned wisdom, and does not talk above his breath in his own house - "that is a defect in her character which her future husband will no doubt condone."

She takes no heed. The large and tender eyes are distant and troubled. She has become a seer, a prophetess of evil things in the days to come.

"Think of the child!" she says to our gentle visitor - who was once being courted herself, but is now a brisk young matron blushing with the honors of a couple of bairns - "think of her being all alone there, with scarcely a woman friend in the world. She has no one to warn her, no one to guide her - "

"But why," says our young matron, with mild wonder - "why should she want warning? Is it such a terrible thing to get married?"

Common-sense does not touch the inspired.

"The getting married? No. It is the awakening after.

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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.