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Thus I drew the hero of my book proclaiming,\r\n      at the age of eighty, his fidelity to the one woman he had ever loved.\r\n    \n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 2194 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Sand, George \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Mar 26, 2006 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslator\u003c\/b\u003e: Young, Stanley \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Sand, George,1804-1876 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43212237471901,"sku":"gb-2194-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/2194_0b3bde89-3079-40a8-9381-78a16281d4b3.jpg?v=1671252704"},{"product_id":"the-forsyte-saga-volume-i-gb-2559","title":"The Forsyte Saga, Volume I","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Forsyte Saga, Volume I.\r - The Man Of Property\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\n      The Forsyte Saga was the title originally destined for that\r\n      part of it which is called The Man of Property; and to adopt\r\n      it for the collected chronicles of the Forsyte family has indulged the\r\n      Forsytean tenacity that is in all of us. 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She was born in\r\nthe last quarter of the Nineteenth Century, at Nice, in France, and she\r\nspent the early years of her life in St. Louis, a somewhat conservative\r\nold city on the banks of the Mississippi River. Her father was Randolph\r\nLeffingwell, and he died in the early flower of his manhood, while\r\nfilling with a grace that many remember the post of United States Consul\r\nat Nice. As a linguist he was a phenomenon, and his photograph in the\r\ntortoise-shell frame proves indubitably, to anyone acquainted with the\r\nfashions of 1870, that he was a master of that subtlest of all arts,\r\ndress. He had gentle blood in his veins, which came from Virginia through\r\nKentucky in a coach and six, and he was the equal in appearance and\r\nmanners of any duke who lingered beside classic seas.\nHonora has often pictured to herself a gay villa set high above the\r\ncurving shore, the amethyst depths shading into emerald, laced with\r\nmilk-white foam, the vivid colours of the town, the gay costumes; the\r\nexcursions, the dinner-parties presided over by the immaculate young\r\nconsul in three languages, and the guests chosen from the haute noblesse\r\nof Europe. 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At every click of the\r\nrails she was drawing nearer to that great world of which she had\r\ndreamed, a world of country houses inhabited by an Olympian order. To be\r\nsure, Susan, who sat reading in the chair behind her, was but a humble\r\nrepresentative of that orderbut Providence sometimes makes use of such\r\ninstruments. The picture of the tall and brilliant Ethel Wing standing\r\nbehind the brass rail of the platform of the car was continually\r\nrecurring to Honora as emblematic: of Ethel, in a blue tailor-made gown\r\ntrimmed with buff braid, and which fitted her slender figure with\r\nmilitary exactness. Her hair, the colour of the yellowest of gold, in the\r\nmanner of its finish seemed somehow to give the impression of that metal;\r\nand the militant effect of the costume had been heightened by a small\r\ncolonial cocked hat. If the truth be told, Honora had secretly idealized\r\nMiss Wing, and had found her insouciance, frankness, and tendency to\r\nridicule delightful. Militantthat was indeed Ethel's notemilitant\r\nand positive.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 5375 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Churchill, Winston \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Oct 19, 2004 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Churchill, Winston,1871-1947 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43213311606941,"sku":"gb-5375-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/5375_08974d78-b284-4c49-b0d9-cb6e04b8c943.jpg?v=1671280378"},{"product_id":"a-modern-chronicle-volume-03-gb-5376","title":"A Modern Chronicle — Volume 03","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Modern Chronicle — Volume 03\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was late November. And as Honora sat at the window of the drawing-room\r\nof the sleeping car, life seemed as fantastic and unreal as the moss-hung\r\nSouthern forest into which she stared. She was happy, as a child is happy\r\nwho is taken on an excursion into the unknown. The monotony of existence\r\nwas at last broken, and riven the circumscribing walls. Limitless\r\npossibilities lay ahead.\nThe emancipation had not been without its pangs of sorrow, and there were\r\nmoments of retrospectionas now. She saw herself on Uncle Tom's arm,\r\nwalking up the aisle of the old church. How many Sundays of her life had\r\nshe sat watching a shaft of sunlight strike across the stone pillars of\r\nits gothic arches! She saw, in the chancel, tall and grave and pale,\r\nPeter Erwin standing beside the man with the flushed face who was to be\r\nher husband. She heard again the familiar voice of Dr. Ewing reciting the\r\nwords of that wonderful introduction. At other weddings she had been\r\nmoved. 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Rival for more reasons than one, reasons\r\ntoo delicate to tell. Long, long ago there appeared in Punch a cartoon of\r\nLord Beaconsfield executing that most difficult of performances, an egg\r\ndance. We shall be fortunate indeed if we get to the end of this chapter\r\nwithout breaking an egg!\nOur pen fails us in a description of that festival of festivals, the\r\nBanbury one, which took place early in September. We should have to go\r\nback to Babylon and the days of King Nebuchadnezzar. (Who turns out to\r\nhave been only a regent, by the way, and his name is now said to be\r\nspelled rezzar). 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And there came a time, after the excitement of furnishing the\r\nnew house was over, when our heroine, as it were, swung for a time in\r\nspace: not for a very long time; that month, perhaps, between autumn and\r\nwinter.\nWe need not be worried about her, though we may pause for a moment or two\r\nto sympathize with her in her lonelinessor rather in the moods it\r\nproduced. She even felt, in those days, slightly akin to the Lady of the\r\nVictoria (perfectly respectable), whom all of us fortunate enough\r\noccasionally to go to New York have seen driving on Fifth Avenue with an\r\nexpression of wistful haughtiness, and who changes her costumes four\r\ntimes a day.\nSympathy! We have seen Honora surrounded by friendswhat has become of\r\nthem? Her husband is president of a trust company, and she has one of the\r\nmost desirable houses in New York. What more could be wished for? To jump\r\nat conclusions in this way is by no means to understand a heroine with an\r\nIdeal. She had these things, andstrange as it may seemsuffered.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 5378 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Churchill, Winston \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Oct 19, 2004 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Churchill, Winston,1871-1947 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43213311836317,"sku":"gb-5378-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/5378_d6844af2-7a22-454b-876a-811142410832.jpg?v=1671280385"},{"product_id":"a-modern-chronicle-volume-06-gb-5379","title":"A Modern Chronicle — Volume 06","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Modern Chronicle — Volume 06\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAccording to the ordinary and inaccurate method of measuring time, a\r\nfortnight may have gone by since the event last narrated, and Honora had\r\ntasted at last the joys of authorship. Her name was not to appear, to be\r\nsure, on the cover of the Life and Letters of General Angus Chiltern; nor\r\nindeed, so far, had she written so much as a chapter or a page of a work\r\nintended to inspire young and old with the virtues of citizenship. At\r\npresent the biography was in the crucial constructive stage. Should the\r\nletters be put in one volume, and the life in another? or should the\r\nletters be inserted in the text of the life? or could not there be a\r\nthird and judicious mixture of both of these methods? Honora's counsel on\r\nthis and other problems was, it seems, invaluable. Her own table was\r\nfairly littered with biographies more or less famous which had been\r\nfetched from the library, and the method of each considered.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 5379 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Churchill, Winston \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Oct 19, 2004 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Churchill, Winston,1871-1947 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43213311869085,"sku":"gb-5379-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/5379_fabfdac3-9045-4673-ae33-e8ee203653df.jpg?v=1671280387"},{"product_id":"a-modern-chronicle-volume-07-gb-5380","title":"A Modern Chronicle — Volume 07","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Modern Chronicle — Volume 07\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll morning she had gazed on the shining reaches of the Hudson, their\r\ncolour deepening to blue as she neared the sea. A gold-bound volume of\r\nShelley, with his name on the fly-leaf, lay in her lap. And two lines she\r\nrepeated softly to herselftwo lines that held a vision:\nShe summoned him out of the chaos of the past, and the past became the\r\npresent, and he stood before her as though in the flesh. Nay, she heard\r\nhis voice, his laugh, she even recognized again the smouldering flames in\r\nhis eyes as he glanced into hers, and his characteristic manners and\r\ngestures. Honora wondered. In vain, during those long months of exile had\r\nshe tried to reconstruct him thus the vision in its entirety would not\r\ncome: rare, fleeting, partial, and tantalizing glimpses she had been\r\nvouchsafed, it is true. The whole of him had been withheld until this\r\nbreathless hour before the dawn of her happiness.\nYet, though his own impatient spirit had fared forth to meet her with\r\nthis premature gift of his attributes, she had to fight the growing fear\r\nwithin her. Now that the days of suffering were as they had not been,\r\ninsistent questions dinned in her ears: was she entitled to the joys to\r\ncome? What had she done to earn them? Had hers not been an attempt, on a\r\ngigantic scale, to cheat the fates? 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