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The Major's Niece

Sara Van Buren

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Description:Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III, Duke's So the young Stanleys went at the appointed time to the Perses in the Berkshire Hills. The country-house rejoiced in the name of Duke's Lodge, in compliment to the shade of their distant and musty ancestor. Everything, from the fine iron gates of the park entrance to the house itself and its liveried servants, proclaimed the deep respect in which they held the honor of their descent and the responsibility they felt of doing justice to it. The house was an old-fashioned one built by some early Governor or other colonial grandee who liked big rooms and high ceilings, and all that had since been done to it only served to heighten the impression of stateliness. A fitting abode for blue blood in its enforced sojourn in an alien land. There was a dignity, a courtliness about the father of the family which tended to make amends for his over-long nose and retreating forehead and chin. These, in ordinary folk, might have been a sign of weakness of character and lack of intellect, but were in his case the hereditary type of the Perses, and therefore, by that fact, aristocratic. As for Madam Perse, with her white hair done a la Pompadour and her pervading air of superiority, she was well calculated to impress the most democratic-minded. There was with the elders a certain something of the rois en exile/'?as though they were, notwithstanding the elegance of their surroundings, still far from enjoying what would be due them in their ancestral home?England. Of the young people of the family, J. Earle Perse, the son and heir, inherited the ancestral type: the narrow face, sloping forehead, retreating chin?the latter in his case modified by an artistically-trimmed beard; eyes that were too close and small; a nose shorter than that of his father, to be sure, ..We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Major's Niece. To get started finding The Major's Niece, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Release: 2012

ISBN: 1458924491

Description: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III, Duke's So the young Stanleys went at the appointed time to the Perses in the Berkshire Hills. The country-house rejoiced in the name of Duke's Lodge, in compliment to the shade of their distant and musty ancestor. Everything, from the fine iron gates of the park entrance to the house itself and its liveried servants, proclaimed the deep respect in which they held the honor of their descent and the responsibility they felt of doing justice to it. The house was an old-fashioned one built by some early Governor or other colonial grandee who liked big rooms and high ceilings, and all that had since been done to it only served to heighten the impression of stateliness. A fitting abode for blue blood in its enforced sojourn in an alien land. There was a dignity, a courtliness about the father of the family which tended to make amends for his over-long nose and retreating forehead and chin. These, in ordinary folk, might have been a sign of weakness of character and lack of intellect, but were in his case the hereditary type of the Perses, and therefore, by that fact, aristocratic. As for Madam Perse, with her white hair done a la Pompadour and her pervading air of superiority, she was well calculated to impress the most democratic-minded. There was with the elders a certain something of the rois en exile/'?as though they were, notwithstanding the elegance of their surroundings, still far from enjoying what would be due them in their ancestral home?England. Of the young people of the family, J. Earle Perse, the son and heir, inherited the ancestral type: the narrow face, sloping forehead, retreating chin?the latter in his case modified by an artistically-trimmed beard; eyes that were too close and small; a nose shorter than that of his father, to be sure, ..We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Major's Niece. To get started finding The Major's Niece, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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