Author: Horace Annesley Vachell

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-05-12

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9780259211686

Excerpt from The Soul of Susan Yellam Upon a certain Sunday in June, 1914, Susan Yellam sat as usual in her pew. Across the aisle, higher up, sat the Squire's servants, and behind them the Parson's three maids. Before the service began, Mrs. Yellam noticed that one of the maids was a stranger and not country-bred. The girl Haunted no finery, but the cut of her modest skirt and jacket proclaimed her urban. Mrs. Yellam guessed that this was Mr. Hamlin's new parlour-maid from Old Sarum. She might be described as pretty, but peaky and Spindling. The Squire preached eugenics, in and out of season, and upon the subject of young females as potential mothers Mrs. Yellam saw eye to eye with that genial autocrat. How ever, she consoled herself with the reflection that Nether Applewhite air and good plain food would accomplish a much needed change. She hoped that the girl would 'not smirk or giggle if old Captain Davenant read the les sons, an infallible test in propriety for strangers. And she wondered vaguely what Alfred would think of her. For a season, Alfred had walked out with this young woman's predecessor, a bouncing, red-checked lass of the village. Nothing had come of such perambulations. Al fred was what the French term un celebataire endurci. And he was made extremely comfortable at home. But he had passed his thirtieth year, and of late his mother had hinted discreetly that her cottage, larger than most, could accommodate three persons - or more. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.