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Tempest-Driven: A Romance (Vol. 3 of 3)

By Richard Dowling

2020-09-20 04:30:54

Brief Extract: Consequence but herself. Edith thought Madge the only absolutely perfect person living, or that ever had lived - leaving out, of course, the important defect just mentioned. The younger girl had, in human affairs, a certain hardness an ... Read more

Brief Extract: Consequence but herself. Edith thought Madge the only absolutely perfect person living, or that ever had lived - leaving out, of course, the important defect just mentioned. The younger girl had, in human affairs, a certain hardness and common-sense plainness which shocked the more sensitive sister. For instance, she could not see anything at all pathetic in Mrs. Davenport's situation. Before the bell rang for luncheon, she said to her sister I can't for the life of me see what is so terribly melancholy in Mrs. Daven port's case. I think she got out Of it rather well. She didn't care anything for that dreadful old man who poisoned himself out of some horrid kind of spite. She hasn't been put in prison, and he left her a whole lot of money. So that as she isn't exactly an old maid, or a grandmother, she can marry any other horrid old man B 2.

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File size133.777 KB
Print pages199
PublisherPublic Domain Book
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-0332801599
Richard Dowling (3 June 1846 – 28 July 1898) was an Irish novelist. Dowling was born in southern Ireland in 1846. He worked with a group of Irish writers producing a paper called Zolius. He moved...

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