Author: Arabella Kenealy

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-04

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9781330673287

Excerpt from Woman and the Shadow "'How much for a bachelor? Who wants to buy, In a wink every maiden responded, 'I - I.' In short, at a largely extravagant price, The bachelors all were sold off in a trice." Lady Kershaw opened a letter under cover of the breakfast table, her eyes traveling furtively toward her son at its further end. "Ham and eggs, mother?" he queried, unconcernedly. With that letter in her hand she wondered how he could be so cool. She forgot he had not even a suspicion of the circumstances prompting it. She read it through and laid it beside her, while she poured tea with a hand grown capable by experience, though this morning unsteadied by events. How should she break the news to him? She was not a weak woman, but she entertained a wholesome respect for this her younger son. Some ray of mind-telepathy - common enough between persons in unison moved him to introduce the subject. "We shall have to let the old place," he said, abruptly. "I was talking with Pugh last night about it." "Oh, Richard!" "I know," he said. 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.