FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   11   12   13   14   15   16   17   18   19   20   21   22   23   24   25  
26   27   28   29   30   31   32   33   34   35   36   37   38   39   40   41   42   43   44   45   46   47   48   49   50   >>   >|  
Project Gutenberg's The Daughters of a Genius, by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Daughters of a Genius Author: Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey Illustrator: John Menzies Release Date: June 20, 2010 [EBook #32933] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE DAUGHTERS OF A GENIUS *** Produced by Nick Hodson of London, England The Daughters of a Genius, by Mrs George de Horne Vaizey. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ THE DAUGHTERS OF A GENIUS, BY MRS GEORGE DE HORNE VAIZEY. CHAPTER ONE. UNKNOWN COUSINS. "What is your letter, my dear? You seem annoyed. _No_ bad news, I hope," said the master of Chedworth Manor, looking across the table to where his wife eat behind the urn, frowning over the sheet which she held in her hand. She was a handsome, well-preserved woman, with aquiline features, thin lips, and eyes of a pale, indefinite blue. She looked up as he spoke, then threw down the letter with a sigh of impatience. "Oh, bad news, of course! When did we ever return from a holiday without finding something of the sort awaiting us? It's from Stephen Charrington. He says he would have written before, but heard that we were abroad, and did not know where to direct. Edgar is dead. He died a fortnight ago, and the funeral was on Friday week. I never knew a man who married improvidently and had a huge family who did _not_ die before he reached middle age. It seems a judgment on them; and here is another instance. Forty-nine his last birthday! He ought to have lived for another twenty years at least." Mrs Loftus spoke with an air of injury which seemed to imply that the deceased gentleman had died out of pure perversity, and her husband knitted his brows in disapproving fashion. Even after twenty-five years of married life his wife's heartless selfishness could give him a twinge of shocked surprise when, as now, it was obtrusively displayed. He himself made no claims to philanthropy, but one expected some natural feeling from a woman; and with all his fault
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   11   12   13   14   15   16   17   18   19   20   21   22   23   24   25  
26   27   28   29   30   31   32   33   34   35   36   37   38   39   40   41   42   43   44   45   46   47   48   49   50   >>   >|  



Top keywords:

George

 

Genius

 

Daughters

 

Vaizey

 

married

 

DAUGHTERS

 

letter

 

GENIUS

 
twenty
 
Gutenberg

Project

 
shocked
 

direct

 

claims

 

abroad

 
philanthropy
 

fortnight

 
funeral
 

obtrusively

 

surprise


displayed

 
expected
 

awaiting

 
finding
 

holiday

 

Stephen

 
Charrington
 

Friday

 

written

 

natural


feeling
 

fashion

 
disapproving
 

knitted

 

return

 

birthday

 

Loftus

 

deceased

 

gentleman

 

husband


injury

 

instance

 
selfishness
 
heartless
 

improvidently

 

twinge

 

family

 

judgment

 

reached

 

middle