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Sirius; A Volume of Fiction

Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler

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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: MISS LATIMER'S LOVER Miss Anne Latimer was an old maid, according to the measure of that almost merciless of critics, the young girl; she was tired and timid and faded, and ought to have found ample satisfaction for her spinster soul in clothing clubs, and sewing parties, and such-like old- maidenly dissipations; but alas! she did not. Though she was well on her way down the shady slope of forty, she was actually guilty of the anachronism of falling in love?and for the first time, too, in her grey, uneventful life?the object of her adoration being the middle-aged organist of Marley Church, commonly called old Harry Scott. Locked and double-locked in her own gentle heart was the secret of Anne Latimer's devotion to Mr. Scott; but she cherished it fondly nevertheless. Everything he did was clothed in a robe of heroism and surrounded by a halo of romance. The books he read and recommended became inspired volumes; the tunes he played and taught seemed variations of the music of the spheres. Miss Latimer's daily walk and occupation was the calling of a governess; and while she instructed the vicar's little boys in the conjugating of amo, she construed it herself after the most approved fashion; a society beauty could not have done it better?perhaps not so well. To the ordinary observer Harry Scott appeared to be a disagreeable, fault-finding, cynical recluse; but the gods?notably the god of love?see otherwise, and with different eyes from the ordinary observer. Would you believe it ? cried Madge Lacey, rushing into the vicarage schoolroom one day, a baronet has been lost or made away with somewhere about here. Oh, my dear, how very shocking! exclaimed Miss Latimer, nervously looking behind her, as if the lost baronet might be lurking somewhere in the schoolr...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 Sirius; A Volume of Fiction. To get started finding Sirius; A Volume of Fiction, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: General Books

Release: 2012

ISBN: 1458975010

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: MISS LATIMER'S LOVER Miss Anne Latimer was an old maid, according to the measure of that almost merciless of critics, the young girl; she was tired and timid and faded, and ought to have found ample satisfaction for her spinster soul in clothing clubs, and sewing parties, and such-like old- maidenly dissipations; but alas! she did not. Though she was well on her way down the shady slope of forty, she was actually guilty of the anachronism of falling in love?and for the first time, too, in her grey, uneventful life?the object of her adoration being the middle-aged organist of Marley Church, commonly called old Harry Scott. Locked and double-locked in her own gentle heart was the secret of Anne Latimer's devotion to Mr. Scott; but she cherished it fondly nevertheless. Everything he did was clothed in a robe of heroism and surrounded by a halo of romance. The books he read and recommended became inspired volumes; the tunes he played and taught seemed variations of the music of the spheres. Miss Latimer's daily walk and occupation was the calling of a governess; and while she instructed the vicar's little boys in the conjugating of amo, she construed it herself after the most approved fashion; a society beauty could not have done it better?perhaps not so well. To the ordinary observer Harry Scott appeared to be a disagreeable, fault-finding, cynical recluse; but the gods?notably the god of love?see otherwise, and with different eyes from the ordinary observer. Would you believe it ? cried Madge Lacey, rushing into the vicarage schoolroom one day, a baronet has been lost or made away with somewhere about here. Oh, my dear, how very shocking! exclaimed Miss Latimer, nervously looking behind her, as if the lost baronet might be lurking somewhere in the schoolr...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 Sirius; A Volume of Fiction. To get started finding Sirius; A Volume of Fiction, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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